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#124266 - searching Responding to: ???'s previous message |
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 |
Topic | Author | Date |
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 |