Searching the forums ...

I have an idea. When posting a thread, a user should be given an option to specify maybe 3 terms which will appear in a search. This is similar to the Meta tags in HTML. These terms could be a single word or a combination of words. Each term will have a max of 3/4 words.

When a thread is submitted, these search terms will be added to another table that contains a list of all such search terms. Any time a user wishes to search the threads for specific things, a link will take the user to a page which contains a list of all these search terms. Clicking a search term will run a search on that term.

A search itself could comprise of two mechanisms. The first mechanism would simply retrieve all the threads which had the specified search criteria as their search terms. The other mechanism would be the real search, which searched the threads/posts for the specific search criteria entered by the user.

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if the current search wasn't so poor that wouldn't be necessary.

I demand wildcards like it says it has!!

Maybe. I wanted to search something about the maximum rows an Access table can theoretically and practically contain. I ran a search and found nothing.

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I want to search on thread titles {Though on most occasions they are being unrelated}

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Originally posted by honeybee
Maybe. I wanted to search something about the maximum rows an Access table can theoretically and practically contain. I ran a search and found nothing.

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rows is not a technical keyword :D

I used

Access maximum records limit

as keywords and the search returned just 2, the second one being ...

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4893

I know how HB feels.. (well not exactly cos he is a bit nuts but... :p ) I have searched many times for stuff that i know 'should' be found mainly becos I did it only 5 mins ago :rolleyes: and even though I give it the pertinent keywords it still fails to find it.

I make the altogether naive assumption that when u search for Keywords And User, it searches for keywords within the whole thread that the user was involved in and not just their individual posts.

Even allowing for that not being the case it still rarely finds what I am after. Although I did find that old pair of socks that I lost a few years back...

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Originally posted by beachbum
I know how HB feels..

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Surprise, surprise!!! :p

But then, Aussies are known to feel like half-nuts, ain't they? :p

Seriously, if you all think the present search is screwed up (to some extent), why not start campaigning? Those who have John's email address, or have him on ICQ .... mmmmmmm... I shall PM you later about the battle plans.;)

thinktank2, thanks for the link, it's at least a little helpful, considering that one of the posters claims to have 1 million or some records in a table and still being fast. That's some consolation.


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