Forum search, made easier?
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Topic: Forum search, made easier?
Posted By: haggisv
Subject: Forum search, made easier?
Date Posted: 02/21/2009 at 8:25pm
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I know a lot of you have complained about 'forum search' not working too well, and sometimes produced errors. The search function in the forums is integral to the software, and will be very hard for admins to improve IMO. I've mentioned using Google instead, but you need to type in quite a few terms to get it to just search the forum... Since I use the search a lot myself, and have the same troubles, I decided to make a little custom Google search engine, that allows you to just search the forums or other TT sites and not any other sites, and allow you to use all the powerful search options that Google offers. This seems to work quite well for me, so I've setup a little site for others to use as well, link below: http://tabletennis-search.choices-guide.com - Table tennis search site I've only put in the major forums and reviews sites so far, but can add any others on request. If you try it, let me know if you find it useful or not. If people find it useful, I'll start adding other options/catagories as well. Any suggestions for ways of improvement/additions would be great as well... ------------- Smart; VS>401, Dtecs OX http://tabletennisshop.com.au/index.php?main_page=page&id=42" rel="nofollow - Tenergy Alternatives | http://tabletennis-reviews.com" rel="nofollow - My TT Articles |
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Posted By: Ritkuro
Date Posted: 02/22/2009 at 12:47am
| Thanks. A suggestion I could make is to make a single forum search option. I know it's useless since other forums have their forums have search options but yours is more organized and simple. |
Posted By: haggisv
Date Posted: 02/22/2009 at 2:04am
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Thanks Ritkuro, well worth considering! varghesep: I though my post above answered this already?:
It's only a quick website I put together, and if people are interested I'll add a lot more sites included in the search, and also more features. If there is no interest, I won't bother... ------------- Smart; VS>401, Dtecs OX http://tabletennisshop.com.au/index.php?main_page=page&id=42" rel="nofollow - Tenergy Alternatives | http://tabletennis-reviews.com" rel="nofollow - My TT Articles |
haggisv wrote:Posted By: firetack
Date Posted: 02/22/2009 at 3:05am
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thanks haggis ,please add more sites ------------- Black Balsa 3.0 fh/tenergy 05 1.9 388d ox |
Posted By: enevol
Date Posted: 02/22/2009 at 8:16am
| This is great! I hope you'll find the time to advance this project. Thanks.. |
Posted By: johnny89atc
Date Posted: 02/22/2009 at 9:25am
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Nice job haggisv, thanks!
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Posted By: varghesep
Date Posted: 02/22/2009 at 9:49am
There is a sticky section on this forum where it has a list of forums and review sites. They are all "major"
 and being used by the tt communities.------------- http://www.mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=16429 - Feedback |
Posted By: haggisv
Date Posted: 02/22/2009 at 5:47pm
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varghesep: <sigh> Yes of course I'm aware of this, and I'll be sure to add to add your own "major" site to the list... can we get back on track please? <sigh> firetack, enevol, Johnny89atc: Thanks guys, I'll add some more features and sites... ------------- Smart; VS>401, Dtecs OX http://tabletennisshop.com.au/index.php?main_page=page&id=42" rel="nofollow - Tenergy Alternatives | http://tabletennis-reviews.com" rel="nofollow - My TT Articles |
Posted By: Wawaicetea123
Date Posted: 02/22/2009 at 6:23pm
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This is kind of off topic but i felt it would be a good idea. I think we should add a feature to when you are posting a new topic. Every new poster is scolded to use the search function because of double posting and my idea is this. Every time a new topic is made it is first put through a search to look for matches in the title and body paragraphs to avoid double posting. No more double posts or scolding ------------- Kreanga Aeros ST FH: Tenergy 05 Red 2.1 BH: Flarestorm II Black 2.1 |
Posted By: varghesep
Date Posted: 02/22/2009 at 6:53pm
You made my day
.------------- http://www.mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=16429 - Feedback |
Posted By: varghesep
Date Posted: 02/22/2009 at 6:57pm
That is a good idea. But I dont think Haggisv can do that on the search site. ------------- http://www.mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=16429 - Feedback |
Posted By: haggisv
Date Posted: 02/22/2009 at 11:42pm
Yes, a good concept, but admin would have to look into this and change the forum software... I certainly can't do myself and it's not a trivial task... ------------- Smart; VS>401, Dtecs OX http://tabletennisshop.com.au/index.php?main_page=page&id=42" rel="nofollow - Tenergy Alternatives | http://tabletennis-reviews.com" rel="nofollow - My TT Articles |
Posted By: Lutareio
Date Posted: 02/23/2009 at 8:33pm
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This is awesome! Great job haggisv!
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Posted By: haggisv
Date Posted: 02/23/2009 at 10:17pm
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Thanks guys! Since you seem quite positive on this little site, I'll add more sites and features in the next few days... I'll also implement a single site search. Any suggestions on what else we can add, are most welcome! ------------- Smart; VS>401, Dtecs OX http://tabletennisshop.com.au/index.php?main_page=page&id=42" rel="nofollow - Tenergy Alternatives | http://tabletennis-reviews.com" rel="nofollow - My TT Articles |
Posted By: haggisv
Date Posted: 02/24/2009 at 6:12am
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OK, single site search now implemented. Next: - Add more forums & review sites - include All TT sites search - ??? ------------- Smart; VS>401, Dtecs OX http://tabletennisshop.com.au/index.php?main_page=page&id=42" rel="nofollow - Tenergy Alternatives | http://tabletennis-reviews.com" rel="nofollow - My TT Articles |
Posted By: BobTheBuilder
Date Posted: 04/08/2009 at 2:09am
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i definitely appreciate your work here haggis. i've always dreaded searching things up on this forum for fear of taking too long only to get an error. thanks! ------------- Yasaka Extra Offensive C-Pen FH: TG2 Neo Black BH: Focus III Snipe Red |
Posted By: Imago
Date Posted: 08/01/2009 at 3:39am
| Forum search is not working at all for me. Any complex (more than 2 words) query results in DB error. ;( |
Posted By: haggisv
Date Posted: 08/01/2009 at 5:51am
Have you tried the search posted at the start of this thread? ------------- Smart; VS>401, Dtecs OX http://tabletennisshop.com.au/index.php?main_page=page&id=42" rel="nofollow - Tenergy Alternatives | http://tabletennis-reviews.com" rel="nofollow - My TT Articles |
Posted By: Imago
Date Posted: 08/01/2009 at 9:38am
| No, I mean the asp search page. Request cannot be processed. Timeout. |
Posted By: haggisv
Date Posted: 08/02/2009 at 9:50pm
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yes that is a common problem... forum searches take up a lot of server resources, so at busy times it will time out.
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Posted By: Imago
Date Posted: 08/04/2009 at 1:42am
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Probably you could optimize the SQL config file to allow more concurrent queries or larger timeout. I could help with some suggestions if this were MySQL but it obviously is not. Probably there are pros tah will help better with this issue. It is indeed very inconvenient to search Google for something that is on your board.
Or you should probably consider the possibility of DB migration.
I am sure there are CS geeks that will be more than happy to help out.
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Posted By: quakerroatmeal
Date Posted: 02/15/2010 at 5:09am
| What about changing the forum to using vBulletin instead? They seem to be very popular, user friendly and great interface. Some other forums I go on use them and they seem to be good. |
Posted By: Jonan
Date Posted: 02/15/2010 at 6:30am
| Biggest problem with the google search is that it also includes the signature info as well. So searching for equipment is almost impossible. You type in tenergy and you get tens of thousands of results because you get every post every person with tenergy in their signature has ever made. |
Posted By: Dafydd393
Date Posted: 02/15/2010 at 7:20am
+1. ------------- Blade - Ma Lin Extra Offensive FL Fh - Boost TC 2.0mm Bh - Boost TC 2.0mm |
Posted By: piligrim
Date Posted: 09/27/2012 at 7:02am
| how to use google search if I want to search only in Buy and Sell section for example? |
Posted By: zeio
Date Posted: 09/27/2012 at 7:28am
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Use the " http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861 - site: " operator in your search query For example, to look up "boll zlc" in the http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=16 - Buy and Sell section , use the following boll zlc site:http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=16 ------------- Viscaria FL - 91g + Neo H3 2.15 Blk - 44.5g(55.3g uncut bare) + Hexer HD 2.1 Red - 49.3g(68.5g 〃 〃) = 184.8g |
Posted By: piligrim
Date Posted: 09/27/2012 at 7:32am
thank you |
Posted By: haggisv
Date Posted: 01/09/2013 at 2:23am
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Does anyone still use this site? If not I'll probably take it down.
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Posted By: Imago
Date Posted: 01/09/2013 at 3:12am
I'd rather fake it up
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Posted By: yogi_bear
Date Posted: 01/09/2013 at 3:27am
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yes, its still being used ------------- Independent online TT Product reviewer of XIOM, STIGA, JOOLA, SANWEI, GEWO, AIR, ITC, APEX, YASAKA and ABROS ITTF Level 1 Coaching Course Conductor, ITTF Level 1 Coach |
Posted By: haggisv
Date Posted: 01/09/2013 at 4:09am
Ok. I've always thought I would extend to to add more websites and features, but the traffic is so low, I wasn't sure of anyone was using it  ------------- Smart; VS>401, Dtecs OX http://tabletennisshop.com.au/index.php?main_page=page&id=42" rel="nofollow - Tenergy Alternatives | http://tabletennis-reviews.com" rel="nofollow - My TT Articles |
Posted By: Imago
Date Posted: 01/09/2013 at 4:35am
Ooops, I thought you want to take down MyTT  , while you are talking about http://tabletennis-search.choices-guide.com/ - http://tabletennis-search.choices-guide.com/
Of course, add more sites - there are nice UK, German and French community sites.
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Posted By: vutiendat1337
Date Posted: 01/09/2013 at 8:00am
i use it a lot :)) ------------- bty petr korbel st fh: donic bluefire red bh: dawei iqul black USATT:1811 http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=40320&title=feedbackvutiendat1337" rel="nofollow - Feedback me |
Posted By: haggisv
Date Posted: 01/09/2013 at 8:03am
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OK, that's good enough for me. I'll leave it and will add more sites. TTT and TTdaily, and any others you guys can suggest.
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Posted By: Ray
Date Posted: 12/11/2017 at 2:50pm
Search -> Advanced search -> Google forum search is not working:
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Posted By: nathanso
Date Posted: 12/21/2017 at 11:47am
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Getting same thing here from the embedded Google search: Unauthorized access to internal API. Please refer to https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/4542055 ------------- BBC, SP, LP |
Posted By: pro946
Date Posted: 02/03/2018 at 2:53pm
Thnaks for sharing, I think it applies depending on the niches.
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Posted By: Sazuy
Date Posted: 03/28/2018 at 6:03am
| thanks. it improves a lot now |