Search Feature sucks.

mandude

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...at least for me. How bout you guys? it never gives me accurate results. for example, I just did a search for butterfly marketing, and got back "article marketing' so i researched with "butterfly marketing" and got the exact same results. That is just one example. i usually get results with little or no relevance. Like the word 'of' will show up as the top result for a long tail search.

Which reminds me that I dont think they are sorted by relevance at all. Just time i guess. Is there any way to improve this or is this vbullitin in general?

 

themagician

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'...What did you want to find with your search for 'Butterfly Marketing?

I found all of these links, INCLUDING your post right at the top on PAGE ONE of the search and there are more pages.

You should find that each and every one of the titles lines, if you open them, contains some reference to your search for 'Butterfly Marketing' including the ones below.

Hope that helps!

The search engines are SMART! Sometimes it's the users who are not...lol

Butterfly Marketing Private Members Area

Project Hyper Plugin - Butterfly Marketing

[GET] Mike Filsaime Butt*erfly Marketing ($1497) and Pr0ject Hy*per Plu*gin ($497) (Multi-page thread 1 2 )

Code:

hxxp://rapid*share.com/files/95825428/The_Butterfly_Marketing_Manuscript_V2.0.zip

Butterfly Marketing Manuscript
View the sales page at: hxxp://www*thebutterflymarketingmanuscript*com/
Price: $97
Download it at: hxxp://thebutterflymarketingmanuscript*com/nowitsfinallyyourturn*htm
Note: This eBook is password protected, the password is: my manuscript

Butterfly Marketing Manuscript
View the sales page at:

Code:

http://www.thebutterflymarketingmanuscript.com/

Price: $97
Download it at:

Code:

http://thebutterflymarketingmanuscri...lyyourturn.htm

Note: This eBook is password protected, the password is: my manuscript


themagician

 

Last edited: Aug 20, 2008

polymorphs

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I sort of feel your pain - always annoys me that the search feature presents me with all these options rather than just taking me to exactly the one nugget of gold I am looking for - but I am an impatient bastard at times

 

Essential Clix

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Were you searching by title only, or entire post?

 

bruce6667

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it could be better, but its okay.

 

Essential Clix

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Yeah, the default vbulletin search does suck a bit.

 

BlackBeret

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I think the hardest part is finding the right name. Some people in here try to hide the program or ebook name like they are writing the next Da Vinci Code book. I know it's something we need to do to prevent search engines from finding them, but I rarely even try to search for anything.

 

Whisker

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themagician said:

The search engines are SMART! Sometimes it's the users who are not...lol

Click to expand...

Yep. The search feature here is not perfect or precise, but maybe you'd like to program a more relevant filter for vbulletin mandude? I can still find what I want here within a series of searches.

 

mandude

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I was thinking along the same lines that its because the way people put * and 0s in the words that i cant find them. But I just use the search bar at the top left of this site. I got totally different results.

But yes, I was looking for an old post, the one that starts with [GET] and has all his stuff in it. My results didnt show it.

 

YoungGuns

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I don't like the way it won't let you search for quotes. That can really annoy me if I'm looking for something specific.

 

Essential Clix

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Don't forget, you can do an Advanced Search for more accurate results.

And if you can't find it using the built in search engine, click this link:

http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

Enter your search terms at the top, and blackhatworld.com in the site box at the bottom.

 

mandude

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ah cool I never thought of that feature of google. but yea It doesnt seem you can search with quotes for exact.

 

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bscan

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Essential Clix,
maybe that you try to implement Sphinx search.
You will have a lot better performance and results.

 

yuppy

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Has the Search feature been completely disabled? It gives me 0 results EVERY time.

 

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HaRRo

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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ablackhatworld.com+harro&btnG=Search

 

yuppy

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Lol, didnt think of that... but i guess it works.... maybe consider redirecting the "Search" feature to:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:blackhatworld.com&btnG=Search

 

simo

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IMO when you cant find what your after then go advanced and drill down further -here vbulletins isnt the best agreed but it can be used more efficiently if you go deeper