The new search still sucks.

[notfred]

If I search in a thread for "book", I should get newest results first. I saw something in OT earlier today and couldn't find it now because the search results come up in completely random order going back for who knows how many months. The new "ranking method" or whatever it's being called sucks. Has anyone actually said they like it?

 

[imported_Mike]

Think they are still working on the kinks...seems to be off and on with it working.

 

[ProviaFan]

This is not a bug, it's a "feature" that's here to "help" you to find stuff you want more efficiently. :roll:

At least that's what Jason has said time and time again. Unfortunately for him, his new search (which was originally the only option) has never found me anything I wanted, and in fact only made searching so much harder that I wished I never had to look for anything again. When enough people (read: anyone that ever searched for anything after the "upgrade" and knew about our "Forum Issues" section) bitched about it, he finally had to give in and put back the sort-by-date search. The default is still the "relevancy" (how the results are relevant never was obvious to me) search, but you can find the checkmark to enable date sorting under the search page.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: ProviaFan
This is not a bug, it's a "feature" that's here to "help" you to find stuff you want more efficiently. :roll:

At least that's what Jason has said time and time again. Unfortunately for him, his new search (which was originally the only option) has never found me anything I wanted, and in fact only made searching so much harder that I wished I never had to look for anything again. When enough people (read: anyone that ever searched for anything after the "upgrade" and knew about our "Forum Issues" section) bitched about it, he finally had to give in and put back the sort-by-date search. The default is still the "relevancy" (how the results are relevant never was obvious to me) search, but you can find the checkmark to enable date sorting under the search page.

Thank god that checkmark is at least there. I agree. The relevancy search is worthless.

 

[Wallydraigle]

"relevancy" search :thumbsdown: