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Thank you, John.
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3 posted on
12/07/2001 3:46:21 PM PST by
Lurker
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I've been completely baffled by the search function for a long time. I put in one word, I get results. I put in another word that's also in the title of the same article, and get zero results. I put in two words that are in the title, and get results. I put in two other words that are also in the title, and get zero results.
To: John Robinson
Nice.
Some quick suggestions:
add "order by author"
Maybe add a "limit search to this category" (ie: culture/society, political humor/cartoons)
Add a date range so people can look at a narrow band of time
If you want to see what a really nice article search engine looks like, just look at the search engine on LEXIS-NEXIS. (of course, the whole business of LEXIS-NEXIS is centered on their search engine, and this is just a peripheral thing for FR).
You could put multiple fields in, like one for "search for any of these words," and another field for "search for this exact phrase" and one for "search for threads NOT containing any of these words" so people could combine different search capabilities.
5 posted on
12/07/2001 3:47:33 PM PST by
xm177e2
To: John Robinson
Wow, that goes back really far. Very cool. At what point do we need to go to the archives?
6 posted on
12/07/2001 3:47:53 PM PST by
riley1992
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That looks pretty good John. I note that it goes back to around the middle of 1999. Is there a plan to bring titles on-line from prior to that?
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I expect you'll be adding in features, so I won't bother you with other requests. Good work.
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Wow. I thought I'd test it and typed in "monica" to give it some work. Blam! They they were in a millisecond. I would hope that you have lots of coolant for this engine...
12 posted on
12/07/2001 3:51:18 PM PST by
eureka!
To: John Robinson
Sure seems to be a lot better. I still have not figured out what the existing engine wants for a thorough search.
To: John Robinson
I just did a search on:
Moose Cheese
Works great!
14 posted on
12/07/2001 3:54:59 PM PST by
steveo
To: John Robinson
Thank you, John!
16 posted on
12/07/2001 3:55:23 PM PST by
Cool Guy
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John, I gave it a quick test, and my search on the word "worm" did not give a reply I just made with that word. This will only search the first post and not the replies?
I would like to see the results sorted in descending order so that the most current appear first. Since I have way to many senior moments, it is unlikely I will remember a phrase from months ago and even attempt to look for it. If I am going to look for a phrase, it would be in something recent.
This will be a super cool feature. I hope it doesn't cause the server to crash and burn.
18 posted on
12/07/2001 4:00:48 PM PST by
LBGA
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Retrieval is wonderfully quick!!
A real pleasure to use. Thank you.
19 posted on
12/07/2001 4:01:51 PM PST by
syriacus
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John I love it...it rules!
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It found a post(article ) I wrote in early 98 very quickly. I have tried to find it before and had not been able to do so, till now. Thank you.
22 posted on
12/07/2001 4:05:54 PM PST by
BADJOE
To: John Robinson
Thank You for ALL you do.
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Very fast. I would suggest changing the second drop down to read a little different. Maybe "By date/time posted" instead of "By time posted".
Not being picky, just offering a thought.
Other than that, looks great!
26 posted on
12/07/2001 4:22:48 PM PST by
mattdono
To: John Robinson
Thanks again JimRob!
27 posted on
12/07/2001 4:23:47 PM PST by
anymouse
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Quick!
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