Search Working?

[vindic8tor]

I just posted a link to The Who - Who's Next

http://www.astatalk.com/viewtopic.php?t=283080&highlight=

Of course, before I ripped, rar'd and uploaded, I searched first. Nothing came back for The Who. When I was done, I did the search again to make sure it showed up.

Nothing!

So, besides the engine not firing on all cylinders, I may have posted a dupe. Dont wanna get spanked by a mod.

[Klean]

Search works:



Topics merged.



Here's the link:

http://www.astatalk.com/viewtopic.php?t=145975

vindic8tor I'm not quite sure why it didn't work for you, but perhaps a refresher on how to search will help:

http://www.astatalk.com/viewtopic.php?t=60339

Note: I've never, in the history of my tenure on Asta, had the search not work. Maybe user error? Not sure.

But I do appreciate you trying the search and reporting your own thread. It benefits all.

Note: "who" won't work in the search, but "Who's next" will ... you just have to be specific.

anyways, no worries. You're doing fine.

[vindic8tor]

[.:hybrid:.]

Yeah it has to be a really exact search term to bring up results, best thing to do is search

the who*

with the * and you get plenty of results.

[vindic8tor]

Yeah, the wildcard returns all sorts of stuff. But that really shouldnt be necessary. And its not mentioned on the "how to search" page. I hope the new Asta's search engine has improved algorithms.

[Klean]

If you typed a word that get too many hits, there will be "no results".

For example, type "Vista" .. Too many to list.

But type "Crue" ... you get hits.

Think about it. "Vista" is in typed many times.

But, "Crue" is typed a lot less. Same with "Motley" is typed a lot less than "Vista"

That is why the staff asked members to include the album name (or version # for software) in the topic - usually, there is a word that is very specific.

If you get "no results" usually that means that the word has been typed so many times, you will never find the thread you are looking for (because you would have to go through 30 pages or more).

So you get a message that is basically telling you to try again... Just not in as many words.

To be specific, I type "Who's" and limited to Music Downloads - got 2 hits.

But you could also look at it a different way, if you know a weird word in a song title, you could put that in, limit it down to Music Downloads and search "Only Text".

Granted, it is a bit of work, but it is helpful. For example, say you posted something about winRAR in the Software and Hardware Discussions forum but did not put "winRAR" in the title, you can find your post by typing winRAR, limiting it down to Software and Hardware Discussions, putting your name in the author and search "only text".

Complicated, but you get results.

Lastly, say you just want to see the posts someone has replied to you. If you just type in your name in the "Search for Author" you get all the posts you posted and the to show if someone has replied.

The search has many functions and is very powerful.