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A "cached" search function?
- Thread starter C-Mike
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Yeah, but that still only gets you so far. Even if you are searching properly, you aren't gauranteed results.
That's when you create a thread saying hey everyone, I searched for X and found Y. Can anyone answer my question about Z? Anyone who would flame someone for a question like that should be smacked.
This is essentially what I was getting after in my original post. I didn't know of that relatively basic web search function which limits all returns to hits within a given site, [site:airwarriors.com "stuff to search"]. It works well, and does indeed highlight the search criteria where it appears in the AW page if you select cached results from Google. This does the job I was looking for, however of course it would be nicer if it could be conducted from within AW (depending upon the effort to implement).
I think everyone who has posted does have valid points regarding utilizing the current Advanced search functions as well as its limitations, however I think it's fair to say without a doubt the AW search engine could use some tweaking. If it is too labor intensive to modify the current, and implement new capabilities, maybe a brief post in the Required Reading section could
be created which outlines all of the various hints and search commands one can use in finding what they are looking for. The Google method above is pretty solid...
Sounds like a good idea, Mike. VBulletin also has the bad habit of deciding that certain words are too short to bother with. Unfortunately, this includes most acronyms new guys and girls are looking for, such as BDCP, NROTC, etc.
This is why I am such a staunch supporter of the "Google method" of searching AW. Any aircraft specific searches are also discarded by VBulletin such as "P-3 lifestyle" or "F-18 bases". These would omit the aircraft aspect of the questions and come back with just the words lifestyle and bases which would not be very helpful.
I know that Google offers embedded search on people's own websites. The main question is to whether VBulletin will accept it in their code.
Thanks for the google tip. Works much better.
great point. Often times those short modifiers make the difference between 15 quality results and a million useless results.
Reference this post:
http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13318&highlight=search
vBulletin has a feature that allows indexing and biasing of search words. It also allows for varying the length of words that are too short. Quite a while ago, I asked for assistance in identifying search acronyms that would be helpful.