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ericjs
Posts: 36
5/6/2015
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But if I mark "titles only" and select to restrict the search to Fallen London, I get 0 results.
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Nigel Overstreet
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5/6/2015
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ericjs wrote:
But if I mark "titles only" and select to restrict the search to Fallen London, I get 0 results.
Don't restrict it to Fallen London.
Using that function reveals no results when searching for the word "The."
"Titles Only" and "everywhere" should have this thread at the bottom of the list.
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Lady Taimi Felix
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5/6/2015
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The forum search seems to be run by the Ministry of Public Decency, and thereby obscures anything you might find useful. Instead, using Google to search just this site with serve you better. For example:
site:community.failbettergames.com/ blemmigan
You can also use quotes or other advanced search protocols to further narrow your results, like:
site:community.failbettergames.com/ "The Blemmigan Affair"
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ericjs
Posts: 36
5/7/2015
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Nigel Overstreet wrote:
Don't restrict it to Fallen London.
Using that function reveals no results when searching for the word "The."
"Titles Only" and "everywhere" should have this thread at the bottom of the list.
That is true at the moment because of our recent postings. Earlier when I tried it, it evidently fell off the limited-to-5 list.
Search engines typically have a list of short common words they ignore like "the", "as", "and" etc, because they are useless for searching.
If I leave Titles only checked and select "Fallen London" (or anything else I've tried) from the drop down it gives 0 results. So that functionality is simply broken. If the results are limited to 5, that kind of motivates one to want to use any such filter available, no?
Personally, if I were Failbetter, I'd consider replacing this search with a link to google or such with a site qualifier. A search that lies is worse than no search at all.
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Sara Hysaro
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Posts: 4514
5/7/2015
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ericjs wrote:
Nigel Overstreet wrote:
Don't restrict it to Fallen London.
Using that function reveals no results when searching for the word "The."
"Titles Only" and "everywhere" should have this thread at the bottom of the list.
If I leave Titles only checked and select "Fallen London" (or anything else I've tried) from the drop down it gives 0 results. So that functionality is simply broken.
I think the problem there is that it searches for topics within the main forum Fallen London and ignores the subforums. If you select The Bazaar instead you'll find this thread.
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ericjs
Posts: 36
5/7/2015
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Sara Hysaro wrote:
I think the problem there is that it searches for topics within the main forum Fallen London and ignores the subforums. If you select The Bazaar instead you'll find this thread.
Hmm, you are right. I'd swear I'd tried that and had gotten 0, but perhaps I had selected the wrong subforum.
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navchaa
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5/20/2015
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Just came to the part where I choose between the three options. Would be ever so appreciative if someone would care to PM me the results. Many thanks in advance!
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