Forum: Community Center


Subject: Search results showing first line - need to show thread title instead

bagginsbill opened this issue on Apr 07, 2006 ยท 17 posts


williamsn posted Sat, 08 April 2006 at 9:45 PM

Quote - "The whole search function is completely useless!!!! Relevancy?!!!! What the heck is that? I should be the one to determine the relevancy of what I'm searching, not a search feature. Also, you can't search by user name now either. "

Any time you search in Google, MSN, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, etc ... a search feature determines the relevancy of each result and sorts them by this. This is no different. Relevancy is calculated by 1) how many times the search query shows up in a result 2) how close to the beginning of the body it is 3) whether or not it's in the subject line (highes priority) 4) how many elements of the message it shows up in. We're working on the bugs y'all are having. Thread subjects will show up in response search results in a bit. The memory overload errors we're having are about to be solved. But we will not be allowing user's to search for other user's posts. This is to prevent people from basically following other people around and harassing them in the forums. Nicholas

-Nicholas