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Is Resetera's search the worst ever or what?
- Thread starter Ether_Snake
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Yeah, the results can be pretty weird
And sometimes I just don't get how the search functions. Like trying to search exact words in a title using quote marks sometimes works and sometimes doesn't?
I just watched Arrival and tried to look for threads, but "Arrival" gets me every title including some form of arrive, arrives... which is completely useless
but trying around a bit I just don't get why
"Breaking Bad" gets me only titles with the exact phrase just fine, but a search for "Breaking" has also results like break etc
it's not about single vs multiple words either, "Looper" will get me just threads for the film, but with a search for "looping" I only get titles with "loop"
And sometimes I just don't get how the search functions. Like trying to search exact words in a title using quote marks sometimes works and sometimes doesn't?
I just watched Arrival and tried to look for threads, but "Arrival" gets me every title including some form of arrive, arrives... which is completely useless
but trying around a bit I just don't get why
"Breaking Bad" gets me only titles with the exact phrase just fine, but a search for "Breaking" has also results like break etc
it's not about single vs multiple words either, "Looper" will get me just threads for the film, but with a search for "looping" I only get titles with "loop"
It's bad, but probably not the worst. I've used fan wiki searches, typed the exact name of the page I want (because fan wikis tend to have easily guessed page names, ie character names, etc.), and still the page does not appear in the search results. So I grumble, manually type whatever.wiki/exactlywhatIwant in the address bar, and lo and behold, the darn page I knew would exist totally exists, and it has the name I knew it would have. That's some next-level search nonsense, right there.
...Though now that I think of it, I haven't tried typing the exact name of ResetEra threads to see if they come up. Here, I only use the search when I don't know the exact title.
...Though now that I think of it, I haven't tried typing the exact name of ResetEra threads to see if they come up. Here, I only use the search when I don't know the exact title.
The idea isn't to search for OT*, or god forbid *OT*; the idea is that the search engine should tokenize mixed strings by indexing them both whole, and separating alphabetic characters from numerals.
Oh god, I had forgotten about that... :S
I always search for threads via google using - resetera.com: xxxyyy what I want to find
https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf...hUKEwizpbac5b7uAhUDCBAIHZigBjcQ4dUDCA0&uact=5
https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf...hUKEwizpbac5b7uAhUDCBAIHZigBjcQ4dUDCA0&uact=5
Chiming in to say when you're searching for previous news-related threads posted by others, you sometimes have a hard time getting results because the thread title might be editorialized by the OP of the thread, and not be the same as the title that is on the original news article source itself.
It is possible this can happen.
It is possible this can happen.
This just reinforces the fact that learning how to use search and read results should be a required course as early as elementary school, and reinforced every year.
Of course it doesn't that's why you're given the option to search thread titles instead, or you're gonna be searching through individual posts by users where words like "maiden" have much more widespread and recent use than your singular requirement.
I'm with you OP. It always seems the thread I'm looking for is on the last page of results, even if I searched for nearly the exact wording of the title.
This too. Half the time I can't search on mobile because of this glitch.
1) Search titles only.
2) Order by date.
3) Display results as threads.
Literally never had an issue.
What gets me is wondering why someone got banned, clicking on their post history to find out, only to be greeted with an "oops! we ran into a problem" error.
It has its moments. But I just absolutely hate how you have zero options to change or modify the search after its been made. Like, you accidently search for Threads and Posts when you only wanted Threads... oh well, just search again and click the option. It's pretty clunky.
It'd be nice if you had a search settings pane where you could reconfigure after the fact without having to go through all the menus again.
It'd be nice if you had a search settings pane where you could reconfigure after the fact without having to go through all the menus again.
YouTube history search is worse than this...
One of those occasions when you type the exact keyword on your own YouTube history search and their search engine seems couldn't find it, when especially it's actually the same freaking word on the video title... 🙄🤦
One of those occasions when you type the exact keyword on your own YouTube history search and their search engine seems couldn't find it, when especially it's actually the same freaking word on the video title... 🙄🤦
I've just spent five minutes trying to search for a thread that was along the lines of 'recommend a product that you can't live without', as it had some great product recommendations, but I have no idea how to search for it and It's driving me mad haha.