larry_llama Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 The search page seems to have only two options... 'search title and body' and 'search body only'... This seems quite useless! Shouldn't it be 'search title and body' and 'search title only'? I want to limit the search to ONLY threads whose main focus is a certain topic... and not get results of where someone has mentioned it in a post to an unrelated thread is it possible to add title-only search? thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted November 18, 2004 Report Share Posted November 18, 2004 I imagine it would be, but if you look around the fora for a couple of minutes, you'll probably realise that 80% of the titles are completely useless, which would make the title-only search almost completely useless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeriyn Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Dex is right. Searching by the title of a thread would be useless unless you knew the exact title, and told the search engine to search for exact name only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry_llama Posted November 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 yeeeahhh... hmm. BUT! I say that if anyone puts a useless topic title then it's their loss, cause they won't get experience the pleasure of my posting in their thread! Suckas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry_llama Posted November 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 Yes, but let's say I want to search for threads about Sharp players in a particular forum... I could put a title search of sharp, and be sure that every thread that's returned is actually ABOUT sharp, rather than someone in some random thread saying "that's a sharp knife you are wielding"... you wouldn't HAVE to know the entire title is all i'm saying... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 My point was more that people often - and I mean VERY often - don't use titles that are tha pertinent to the post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted November 19, 2004 Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 I wish I was capable of altering the search, because I do agree that it sucks, but I don't have the expertise to make a new engine nor alter this one. That's more or less a phpbb issue. I will look into it, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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