Search PureBasic Forum
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 6:07 am
(Should this be a sticky somewhere?)
PROBLEM:
The forum search feature can render some useless results when attemting to find terms it decides should be ignored. A simple example of this is the term EN_CHANGE. First thing the forum search will do is cast out the underscore and suddenly your single-word search term becomes two separate words (EN + CHANGE). Next it will cast out the ''EN'' because the word is considered to be too short. Placing the whole term in double quotes doesn't help because the forum search will cast out the quotes before it proceeds to disect and destroy the desired search term. Search results end up looking something like this:
Very effective way to search any forum is to use google. You will need to isolate your search to show only the results from the PureBasic forum. You can do this with the special ''site:'' + ''domain" keyword.
For our purposes, using the example above, go to google and make the first search term (single-word, no-spaces) like this:
Try to find ''in a way'' in the forum search and you get nothing, but not using Google. Try the following in Google for some interesting results:
PROBLEM:
The forum search feature can render some useless results when attemting to find terms it decides should be ignored. A simple example of this is the term EN_CHANGE. First thing the forum search will do is cast out the underscore and suddenly your single-word search term becomes two separate words (EN + CHANGE). Next it will cast out the ''EN'' because the word is considered to be too short. Placing the whole term in double quotes doesn't help because the forum search will cast out the quotes before it proceeds to disect and destroy the desired search term. Search results end up looking something like this:
- Search found 7653 matches
Search term used: +change ignored: en
Very effective way to search any forum is to use google. You will need to isolate your search to show only the results from the PureBasic forum. You can do this with the special ''site:'' + ''domain" keyword.
For our purposes, using the example above, go to google and make the first search term (single-word, no-spaces) like this:
- site:forums.purebasic.com
- +"EN_CHANGE"
- site:forums.purebasic.com +"EN_CHANGE"
Try to find ''in a way'' in the forum search and you get nothing, but not using Google. Try the following in Google for some interesting results:
- site:forums.purebasic.com +''in a way''
site:forums.purebasic.com +''in a way'' +''in a way''
site:forums.purebasic.com +''in a way'' +''in a way'' +''in a way''
site:forums.purebasic.com +''in a way'' +''in a way'' +''in a way'' +''in a way''