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09/14/06 07:03
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#124266 - searching
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Richard Erlacher said:
You can find things in the subject, but, most of the hits, when I searched for SPI, didn't have any more than a simple reference to SPI in 'em. [...] If you find 1 useful post for every 100 hits, you're not going to spend much time searching.

That's true; but these machines, you know, they are rather dumb - how would you improve the search engine? It has to be you, the user of the search, who use the "human" thinking and supply relevant keywords.

Richard Erlacher said:
At the risk of increasing the burden on the moderators, I'm going to make a suggestion ...
How about the moderator(s) imposing a "supertitle" to a thread when the O/P's title doesn't shed light on the subject?


I'm afraid the moderators simply cannot take this burden.

Would you, Richard?

Jan Waclawek

PS. there's nothing new under the sun... http://www.8052.com/forum/read.phtml?id=87495

List of 21 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
does SEARCH need work?            01/01/70 00:00      
   the zen of searching            01/01/70 00:00      
   Maybe a FAQ...            01/01/70 00:00      
   Yes, id does!            01/01/70 00:00      
      does GOOGLE search syntax work on 8052.COM?            01/01/70 00:00      
         I don't think so            01/01/70 00:00      
            forum suppressed from google            01/01/70 00:00      
               Not intentional            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Whoops            01/01/70 00:00      
      It was Jan            01/01/70 00:00      
   Subject header should contain simple descriptions            01/01/70 00:00      
      common stuff            01/01/70 00:00      
         I don't think so! How do you find it?            01/01/70 00:00      
            searching            01/01/70 00:00      
               maybe a menu?            01/01/70 00:00      
      Subject != Topic            01/01/70 00:00      
         This all means that we should be more careful            01/01/70 00:00      
            Nuggets of golD            01/01/70 00:00      
   Maybe results should be ranked ...            01/01/70 00:00      
      I'd be careful here            01/01/70 00:00      
         Part of the system is already there.            01/01/70 00:00      

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