what's up with the search function?

[Forrest Nearing]

type in "KDP" in the search box with all forums highlighted and ONE thread comes up??! I'm stumped/frustrated

 

[Schlickenmeyer]

Wish I could tell you. . It's been one of my pet peeves for a while.

I just gave up using it. It's the worst search engine I have used.

 

[Forrest Nearing]

I've never really had a problem with it... I use it often... but aparently I'd never searched for "KDP"

 

[AMink]

I find it OK, but even when I put quotes around stuff, ie. "tire size", it still seperates the words and gives a really long list of things that I'm not really looking for. It even comes up with "reTIRE".

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Forrest: The search table was corrupted. It wasn't finding anything before 9/29. I've redone the search index and you should be able to find everything now. I just did a search on kdp and it returned 352 threads.



For the others the search here is actually VERY powerful and you should be able to find just about anything you want. There is a help screen that explains all of the modifiers, etc right on the search page where it says "Allowed modifiers are +, -, *, >, < and " click here for more info/help" right below where you put in your search terms. There is also a thread in the FAQ section explaining it: https://www.turbodieselregister.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96125 .



AMink - I just did a search on "tire size" with the quotes and I am only getting posts that have exactly that in it. I went through the first 30 returns and every one of them had tire size in that order in it. Quotes definately do not seperate the words - if you put quotes around text it will return only posts with that in it. For example:



"lift pump" will find



I replaced my lift pump



but will not find



I tried to lift my pump



If you put multiple words in the search it will return any threads that have any of those words in it. For example a search on:



oil threads



would return any threads that have the words oil or threads in it. Using the + modifier will only return threads that have that word in it. For example:



+oil +threads



would only return a thread that had both of those words in it. But they could be on two seperate posts in that thread (one post having oil in it and one post having threads in it). If you want to only return threads that having multiple words in a single post then select show results as posts and use the + modifier and you will get that.



The help page explains all of this very thoroughly and gives other tips for finding your results. If you can't find what you are looking for with this search engine (as long as the search index isn't corrupted - sorry) you won't find it with anything.

 

[Forrest Nearing]

glad to hear it's all fixed up!



this was the first time I'd ever had any problems with it

 

[AMink]

Thanks Steve. I was using the "Tire size" as an example, but maybe I didn't get the second quote or something. In the big scheme of things, it's a very small issue, and I usually end up finding lots of other cool threads!