Useless 'Search' function.

by Zat Thu 28 May 2009, 04:32

To emphasise my point, on page 2 of the forum (at the moment) there's a thread including the phrase '50 over cricket' in the title.

If you do a search for 50 or cricket, nothing can be found to match your criteria.

Jay, are our hosts aware of this deficiency?

by Batman Thu 28 May 2009, 08:58

One word search works fine for me. It takes one word and throws up threads but not number. '50' didn't work. But 'cricket' did. Your thread came up.

'Qunts' did work. Tried your name and 'qunts' combo to see see if your 'Viruses are Qunts' thread was found. It did. 'Virus' didn't get me that thread but 'Viruses' did. So specific word needed spelt correctly.

Searching 'Mumbai' worked. Also 'Mumbai terror'. Both led me to Mumbai terror attack and all Mumbai IPL game threads. Using plain forummers names don't work.

One word works well. More than one word as keywords is 50/50 as far as search is concerned. I think it's very word specific as opposed to generic.

I suppose if it worked any better, it would beat Google.....