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Snautzer01

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Hi clever guys in the background of this board.

As a member that posts a lot, this is strange. Would have thought title first or most active thread first or most replied or such. And a as a second can the By: field always come up with own user name? Or perhaps option added own threads with replies added as option

Thanks for taking time to look at it.


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Actually the list of the five threads is not the list of results of the searching while using the keyword specified in the top line. These are suggestions only and may not have too much in common with the keyword typed. The Search option tries to prompt you where your searching may start from. Also the option takes the number of letters in the keyword into consideration while trying to match words. The minimum is four or five letters as memo serves. Try to type the "lighting" for instance. As the result you should get the five suggested threads with the word "light" in their titles. No matter if it is the "light", "lightning" or "lights".
The word "p-38" contains 3 of them only while the "-" is treated as a special sign and is not taken into account for getting the suggestions. Because the "p" is the first letter it used for the searching. So the final result for the suggested threads looks like you posted above and me below. Please note that all the threads contain the "p" letter in the sentences. Also your thread has been added to the suggestions as it is the recent one and contains the "p" in the title. The full keyword ( with all its signs) is taken into accound for searching when you hit the "SEARCH" button at the bottom of the search window.
I hope my explanation is fine and you could grasp that.

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Actually the list of the five threads is not the list of results of the searching while using the keyword specified in the top line. These are suggestions only and may not have too much in common with the keyword typed. The Search option tries to prompt you where your searching may start from. Also the option takes the number of letters in the keyword into consideration while trying to match words. The minimum is four or five letters as memo serves. Try to type the "lighting" for instance. As the result you should get the five suggested threads with the word "light" in their titles. No matter if it is the "light", "lightning" or "lights".
The word "p-38" contains 3 of them only while the "-" is treated as a special sign and is not taken into account for getting the suggestions. Because the "p" is the first letter it used for the searching. So the final result for the suggested threads looks like you posted above and me below. Please note that all the threads contain the "p" letter in the sentences. Also your thread has been added to the suggestions as it is the recent one and contains the "p" in the title. The full keyword ( with all its signs) is taken into accound for searching when you hit the "SEARCH" button at the bottom of the search window.
I hope my explanation is fine and you could grasp that.

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I do have a grasp. How ever i would like the search machine look at the headers of posts in order of most populair most recent. I find i have no use for it as it as.
 
I see. You can go to your account settings and in the Preferences section you may try to change the Search options. To be honest I don't use the Search option very often. I would say almost at all.
Anyway the searching engine doesn't depend on us and works as it does. Maybe there can be someone who can "experiment" with the searching options. But it may take some of time. Unfortunately we don't have it too much.
 
I see. You can go to your account settings and in the Preferences section you may try to change the Search options. To be honest I don't use the Search option very often. I would say almost at all.
Anyway the searching engine doesn't depend on us and works as it does. Maybe there can be someone who can "experiment" with the searching options. But it may take some of time. Unfortunately we don't have it too much.
Thank you. I use the search a lot, so for me it is quite different. No biggie, just a minor thing.
 
Works a bit better but still more to type then i like. I will make my own script for entering a search.
 

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