PISTONHEADS SEARCH ENGINE
Discussion
OK, has anybody out there cracked how to use the new search engine! It has defied any logic I have tried to use. I cannot get posts I know to be there and I cannot get any sort of sensible date order. I tried putting in 'TVR S steering rack', see what you get! Before this new search engine, when there wasnt a PH search engine, I could go to google and have a good chance of finding what I want. That doesnt work now! I tried using the same search. See what you get!
Is it me?
Is it me?
We have worked hard on doing things you can't do in Google, such as ordering posts, filtering to specific posters, looking for posts between a certain date, and choosing the forums to search.
The ordering works on a thread, not posts - so it will sort the threads by that order. Thus sorting by last updated Descending will show the topic with the most recent post that matches the search query.
If you have a post you know is there that is not coming back, then please let us know - as this will help us tune the search to make it better.
The ordering works on a thread, not posts - so it will sort the threads by that order. Thus sorting by last updated Descending will show the topic with the most recent post that matches the search query.
If you have a post you know is there that is not coming back, then please let us know - as this will help us tune the search to make it better.
I would also add, in this particular instance where you have a one letter word it does struggle - so might be better to search for TVR Steering Rack and narrow down to Forums, as such.
http://www.pistonheads.com/search?SearchText=TVR%2...
http://www.pistonheads.com/search?SearchText=TVR%2...
Sorry, but I have tried again on another topic and it produced a whole load of irrelevant posts and a google search didnt get it either. I am currently finding it virtually impossible to create the continuity of information from old threads that 'my' forum were seeking to achieve. I have to say, looking at the posts that did come up, I cannot understand how any search engine would have come up with some of them as the titles were not even related.
I have just made another effort to search using the advice given above. It did not allow me to arrange by date and all the ones I found that were at all relevant I know to have been superseded. I am worried therefore that anybody using the search engine as it stands would actually be directed to the wrong information!
Certainly. I recently searched for TVR S Steering Rack on which there has been some recent discussion. I couldnt find that at all. I eventually went to my profile list of posts and found it by tracing a previous contribution of mine.
I did notice that when I tried the PH search the 'ascenting' sort was not 'live'.
I did another search on TVR S Exhaust clips, to follow up a request I had while out with the Derbyshire group last weekend, but nothing relevant or recent came up.
It wasnt that easy finding things via Google but it did select using 'S' and it did identify threads by age reasonably well.
I did notice that when I tried the PH search the 'ascenting' sort was not 'live'.
I did another search on TVR S Exhaust clips, to follow up a request I had while out with the Derbyshire group last weekend, but nothing relevant or recent came up.
It wasnt that easy finding things via Google but it did select using 'S' and it did identify threads by age reasonably well.
LordGrover said:
Does this not contain the target: click?
It does appear to. It appears to produce a very well ordered listing. But how did you get that and how do we make clear to others how to do that? I am reasonably computer literate and certainly better than many on 'my' forum, and I haven't been able to achieve that, at least not yet!Incidentally I did note that the right hand column choice option on your listing was 'live'. It hasnt been so far when I have tried, I wonder why?
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