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Title: Why does SMF search function suck? Post by: bitcool on March 10, 2012, 09:57:10 PM I seldom got what I was searching for... the relevancy rating is very irrelevant, but why?
Title: Re: Why does SMF search function suck? Post by: grue on March 10, 2012, 10:03:17 PM mainly because the search results are by post, not by topic.
Title: Re: Why does SMF search function suck? Post by: bitcool on March 10, 2012, 10:33:28 PM mainly because the search results are by post, not by topic. "by post" means by the number of posts in the thread? it doesn't' seem to be so. Googling "bitcoin forum" + keyword usually gives me better results...... I worship my google God Title: Re: Why does SMF search function suck? Post by: payb.tc on March 10, 2012, 10:35:59 PM Googling "bitcoin forum" + keyword i'm still searching for a search engine that doesn't suck. have you noticed how google's 'verbatim' search, isn't? Title: Re: Why does SMF search function suck? Post by: grue on March 10, 2012, 11:47:02 PM Googling "bitcoin forum" + keyword usually gives me better results...... I worship my google God the proper way is to add "site:bitcointalk.org" in the search query. :PTitle: Re: Why does SMF search function suck? Post by: bitcool on March 11, 2012, 02:51:43 AM Googling "bitcoin forum" + keyword usually gives me better results...... I worship my google God the proper way is to add "site:bitcointalk.org" in the search query. :PTitle: Re: Why does SMF search function suck? Post by: Crypt_Current on March 12, 2012, 03:03:00 AM mainly because the search results are by post, not by topic. "by post" means by the number of posts in the thread? it doesn't' seem to be so. Googling "bitcoin forum" + keyword usually gives me better results...... I worship my google God Meeeee too. I hope I can land a dev job with them someday. Title: Re: Why does SMF search function suck? Post by: payb.tc on March 13, 2012, 06:05:46 AM Title: Re: Why does SMF search function suck? Post by: John (John K.) on March 13, 2012, 06:11:14 AM This is due to google's search heuristics...they try to search via the pronunciation of the word they deem to be off-target.
In this case "aussie" was deemed as "us" as the pronunciation are similar plus US gives more results then aussie. Title: Re: Why does SMF search function suck? Post by: payb.tc on March 13, 2012, 06:34:34 AM This is due to google's search heuristics...they try to search via the pronunciation of the word they deem to be off-target. In this case "aussie" was deemed as "us" as the pronunciation are similar plus US gives more results then aussie. in other words, they failed the comprehend the meaning of the word 'aussie' in this context. Title: Re: Why does SMF search function suck? Post by: John (John K.) on March 13, 2012, 06:42:06 AM This is due to google's search heuristics...they try to search via the pronunciation of the word they deem to be off-target. In this case "aussie" was deemed as "us" as the pronunciation are similar plus US gives more results then aussie. in other words, they failed the comprehend the meaning of the word 'aussie' in this context. |
