***How is search working now? *** How To Search

[AnandTech Moderator]

EDIT:
Can we let this fall?


1. Go to advanced search
2. Enter your search term (try to keep it to one word and the word HAS to be in the Title or Summary as search WILL NOT search the body)
3. Change "Search what" to Title and summary
4. Pick One (1) forum
5. Make sure "Order search results by date" is checked if you want it sorted by date.
6. Cross fingers
7. Click on Search
8. Repeat as need if searching multiple forums
9. Profit

You can also use Google to search the forums:
Enter keyword site:forums.anandtech.com in the search field but substitute your search term for "keyword".
Thanks to Jeff7 and xtknight for this info.

Believe it or not, the search issue is being addressed.

 

[allisolm]

Well, search still doesn't work at all (at least for me) for anything over three months old.

"Any of these words' and 'These exact words" don't work. For instance, searching for ''Sandisk USB" in either of these, title only, Hot Deals, last 10 days, gets lots of results, none of which have either of the words in the title.

 

[timswim78]

It works much better for me. (I have only been using it for current stuff).

 

[DerekWilson]

Originally posted by: allisolm
Well, search still doesn't work at all (at least for me) for anything over three months old.

"Any of these words' and 'These exact words" don't work. For instance, searching for ''Sandisk USB" in either of these, title only, Hot Deals, last 10 days, gets lots of results, none of which have either of the words in the title.

theres an option in your profile to set how many days old topics can be displayed. set this as high as possible.

 

[allisolm]

Originally posted by: DerekWilson

Originally posted by: allisolm
Well, search still doesn't work at all (at least for me) for anything over three months old.

"Any of these words' and 'These exact words" don't work. For instance, searching for ''Sandisk USB" in either of these, title only, Hot Deals, last 10 days, gets lots of results, none of which have either of the words in the title.

theres an option in your profile to set how many days old topics can be displayed. set this as high as possible.

Set it to 9999. It didn't alter anything. Can you search for old threads in advanced search and get results? Is it just me? :shocked:

 

[DerekWilson]

hmmm it worked the other day for me, but now I can't see much further back than one year.

I'll see what I can do.

 

[Kalvin00]

Is it really that difficult to make the search work decently?

Christ.

 

[Mytime34]

I like the way the old search worked. It would search for the words in the title only. I have tried using advanced search, but only 1 out of 5 actually have the word I am looking for.

 

[DerekWilson]

Originally posted by: Mytime34
I like the way the old search worked. It would search for the words in the title only. I have tried using advanced search, but only 1 out of 5 actually have the word I am looking for.

you can use advanced search to restrict the search to title only

 

[newnameman]

Any updates as to when searching archived posts will be fixed?

 

[kaborka]

The "Search Topic" button, when viewing a thread, doesn't seem to do anything. I would expect it to display only posts that contain the keywords, but it appears to just display the whole thread.

 

[redbeard1]

Originally posted by: newnameman
Any updates as to when searching archived posts will be fixed?

I tried to post a link in one of the forums that went back to an archived post. The search for the old post went ok, I was able to find it. But when I clicked on the search result link to the post, it crashed to the oops error message.

I tried to mess around with the web page link address to match the new forum numbers and the changed entries in the last part of the address with no luck.

I ended up answering the post with a link to a Google cache of the page.

 

[Gaard]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Is it really that difficult to make the search work decently?

Christ.</end quote></div>
I don't understand why it just isn't fixed. Give a reason. The reason might suck, but at least we'd know why it isn't being fixed.

 

[DerekWilson]

Originally posted by: Gaard

Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Is it really that difficult to make the search work decently?

Christ.

I don't understand why it just isn't fixed. Give a reason. The reason might suck, but at least we'd know why it isn't being fixed.

because we are not able to edit the code ourselves and we must wait for fusetalk to implement a fix for us.

sorry we don't have a better reason for you, but there it is.

 

[apoppin]

looks like fusetalk fixed it ... what was it? 18 or so months with reposted topic after topic
--permanently, i hope
... and thank-you !