Noah
Well Known Member
Anybody else have trouble with VAF's search feature? If I search for "Engine Paint" I come up with 414 different threads, most of which do not contain anything about engine paint. Yes, all of these 414 threads contain both of these keywords, but this is not useful to me at all. I am not interested in posts that say something to the effect of "That's a light engine." and in the next paragraph, "I like the red paint you used on the gear".
If I use quotes, it makes no difference, the search engine does not recognize quotation marks as Google and other search engines do. If I use the advanced search feature, I can find nothing which will help me to search using these keywords in a proximal or sequential relationship.
So, two suggestions:
1. Allow the use of quotation marks in searches to ONLY pick out those threads or posts with all terms in quotation marks occurring exactly as listed.
2. Revise advanced search algorithm to allow use of boolean search terms "AND", "OR", "NOT" and, most importantly, "NEAR" - this is incredibly useful.
I think if people could search the existing forums more efficiently, they would not have to start new threads asking questions which have already been answered by others in the past but whose answers are difficult or impossible to locate.
How difficult would it be to implement these?
If I use quotes, it makes no difference, the search engine does not recognize quotation marks as Google and other search engines do. If I use the advanced search feature, I can find nothing which will help me to search using these keywords in a proximal or sequential relationship.
So, two suggestions:
1. Allow the use of quotation marks in searches to ONLY pick out those threads or posts with all terms in quotation marks occurring exactly as listed.
2. Revise advanced search algorithm to allow use of boolean search terms "AND", "OR", "NOT" and, most importantly, "NEAR" - this is incredibly useful.
I think if people could search the existing forums more efficiently, they would not have to start new threads asking questions which have already been answered by others in the past but whose answers are difficult or impossible to locate.
How difficult would it be to implement these?