It's no secret the FSM search engine isn't the best in the world. I just tried searching for "Escape to Witch Mountain" and couldn't find any results related to Intrada's new release. I used Google instead and found the forum post immediately.
I wrote a bookmarklet to make it much easier to do this again in the future. Now I'm only one click away from searching the FSM forum and getting perfect results every time! I shared the code (with instructions on how to install it) at jsFiddle so others can make use of it, too.
I always use Google for the most recent or the oldest posts, which the search engine has trouble locating. But it usually does seem to find most of the threads inbetween.
It would be helpful if this board had threads that stuck on top as this one will disappear into the vortex of the regular search engine never to be found again.
If the owners of this board where to pay a developer to write code that allowed sticky threads, they could just pay him to fix the search engine instead.
ACTUALLY.... all you would have to do is edit the database entry for this thread and change the date of the last post to like 1/1/2099 and then lock the thread, and you'd in essence have a de facto sticky post.
It does drive me crazy that the regular search won't bring up current, 2002 and 2009 postings. This is nice now. Btw, this has been addressed recently on previous threads.
OK...I am not a techie by any stretch but I understand patterns. Justin, I used your method with "African Queen" and the thread I was looking for, from the cursed year 2002, came up on page 6. No " " and it's page 7. Then I used the OP method and with or without " " the entry came up page 4. Therefore, under these parameters, I must say his method gets the blue ribbon for now.
OK...I am not a techie by any stretch but I understand patterns. Justin, I used your method with "African Queen" and the thread I was looking for, from the cursed year 2002, came up on page 6. No " " and it's page 7. Then I used the OP method and with or without " " the entry came up page 4. Therefore, under these parameters, I must say his method gets the blue ribbon for now.
Justin's method searches all of FSM's site. The bookmarklet searches only their forum.
It's a neat little 'add-on' you've created. The only problem is it searches messages instead of thread titles. So a lot of hits that aren't so relevant -- at least if you're like me and have memorized approximately what all threads were called since 1998.
It's a neat little 'add-on' you've created. The only problem is it searches messages instead of thread titles. So a lot of hits that aren't so relevant -- at least if you're like me and have memorized approximately what all threads were called since 1998.
I'm not sure I understand. You want to search the content of titles alone, disregarding the content of the messages? Maybe an example would help.
It's a neat little 'add-on' you've created. The only problem is it searches messages instead of thread titles. So a lot of hits that aren't so relevant -- at least if you're like me and have memorized approximately what all threads were called since 1998.
I'm not sure I understand. You want to search the content of titles alone, disregarding the content of the messages? Maybe an example would help.
Yes. I only search for thread titles, never (or extremely rarely) for words posted within the threads themselves. But maybe that's just me.
