Forum search improved

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andrew
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Forum search improved

Post by andrew »

This week I rebuilt the search index on the forum, to improve search functionality. This means searching for threads/posts is now much more accurate.

Users will have noticed in the past that when you searched for a few words, the forum search engine would consistently ignore many of them. The reason was that it deemed them too common to use, based on how often they appear on the forum. This makes sense for words like 'the', but given the narrow British Seagull scope of the forum it also considered many useful words as too common. For example, it would ignore both the words 'spark' and 'plug' in all searches, making a search for spark plug information quite painful!

As usual please post here or send a personal message to me if you experience any new/unusual issues searching the forum.
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Re: Forum search improved

Post by Silver Surfer »

Nice one, Andrew. It's good to know someone's working away in the background, keeping the Site user-friendly.
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