forum search faulty?

[K.S.]

At the end of the day I didnt write the forum software and have very little control over it's behaviour.

In general the search facility works pretty well for me, but sometimes you might need to think of alternative ways to search. If it was one of your threads you're trying to find, then do an advanced search and put your name into the author field and slap in a likely related word like "suspend", and hopefully something will pop out in the results.

i'm shocked. you haven't written vbulletin?
yeah, seems like vbulletin has a problem with that string (embedded comma). you would have to enable fulltext search, then it would be possible to search using wildcards or encapsule the exact search string like "powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState". that's definitely not worth the trouble or the ressources needed on the server for such exotic searches. after some subconscious savvy thinking i've come up with an alternative. the related word allways coming along is rundll32.exe. that's throwing the results i've missed

[K.S.]

i say it's a really bad problem and hampers the usefulness of one of the best things we have going here..
i've had so many problems go unresolved, or tried to gather info for documenting, only to find the answer much later on and wondering how it excaped the searches..wastes a lot of time...makes those hard to find things, completely impossible to find... you have to just hope to stumble upon them..

i wonder if there's a way to externally 'help' the indexing, or do it altogether to fix such issues...

i think it would cut way down on the newbie questions, developers, and Sub's time and the rest of us too...

just seems like a fix here would yield a big bang for buck...

i don't think it will really be such a big bang, even with a fulltext search. problem i've allways run into when searching is OSI layer 8 related, that can't be fixed so easily

[mvallevand]

tipstir, on another forum, told me about boardreader.com as an alternate way to search GBPVR for information that you can't find directly. I think it's a good site to have in the toolkit.

Martin