Popular Post SoleCycle Posted August 16, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 16, 2023 Are any of the Mods aware that the Boolean Operators for searching this site are broken? Can we get it enabled in the admin site settings or fixed? (I don't know where else to post this.) If you search for something like, "begode t4" suspension you get all results that contain "T4" OR "suspension" "begode t4" suspension = 12,848 results and then it suggests to narrow the results by using boolean operators and provides an example, Try searching for the phrase: "begode t4" AND suspension "begode t4" AND suspension = 176,162 results There should be significantly less results with the AND statement! But this is where it is broken. It is treating AND like one of the search terms instead of a boolean operator. Essentially it is now acting like search, "begode t4" OR and OR suspension This definitely should not be happening. The boolean search feature is broken. 1 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chriull Posted August 16, 2023 Share Posted August 16, 2023 5 hours ago, goodsignal said: This definitely should not be happening. The boolean search feature is broken. Afaik there are no boolean search operators - one can choose in the search options to search for any or all of the search term words. Personally i like to search the forum with the google expression site:forum.electricunicycle.org searchterm 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SoleCycle Posted August 16, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 16, 2023 That's a good idea, to use google search terms. However this forum is certainly capable of boolean searches, as you mention in the additional search options. The give-away that it should work in the regular search field is that the search results page explicitly suggests we try boolean operators "AND" to refine our searches after any standard multi-word search is complete. That currently isn't working. And yes, if we click "+ more search options", there's a radio button choice under "Find results that contain..." that let you choose between: "Any of my search term words" which is equivalent to boolean OR "All of my search term words" which is equivalent to boolean AND It's just the main search field fails to accommodate its own search refining suggestions to use "AND" without having to open the additional options page. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chriull Posted August 16, 2023 Share Posted August 16, 2023 10 minutes ago, goodsignal said: It's just the main search field fails to accommodate its own search refining suggestions to use "AND" without having to open the additional options page. This is a bit unfortunate worded - one can click on this suggestion, but not use an AND or OR as search term As seen here once trying to use .. AND ... the search suggests .. AND AND AND ... These suggestions can be clicked and by this the search is refined in the described way, but it is not possible to type a search as shown there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meepmeepmayer Posted August 16, 2023 Share Posted August 16, 2023 I always use Google with site:electricunicycle.org to search this forum. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robse Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 The search function in this forum is in no way working as intended. Try it once, and game over in frustration Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meepmeepmayer Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 Yes it is awful. I don't think the forum software allows replacing (or removing?) the search field. If we could, we would just remove it or have it open a Google search instead. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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