New search engine

[tst]

To get this to work, Ben, I would enter either Brooks or Brooks MFC in the search box at the top of the page (the one that gives you an option to search the forums). That box seems to work better. This is what I was talking about - different search boxes give different results and I still can't predict which works how. Also, even if I manage to, 99.99% of the people won't bother and will just post another question to the forums.

[Ben]

Thank you tst!

That did it.

Ben

[RayFarmer]

Hi,

I have just tried a search of which I already know the answer but it didn't come up in the search responses.

I have a post which was a response to Arik post regarding tds210 instrument driver, posted in 03-28-2001 12:50.
It happens to be on the last page of all my posts.

I entered tds210 as the search string and did a simple search. The post in question wasn't in the responses. I did an advance search, but still couldn't find it. In fact the search period didn't go further than 2004.

I noticed that in the advance screen I had to keep changing 'from 90 day' to 'unlimited'.

strange behaviour, its in there!!!!

Regards

[tst]

Ray, I input tds210 in the box on the top of the window and I got 16 results, the seventh of which was your post. I think we've established there's a problem with searching and that we posted enough examples. We shouldn't turn this thread into an "I couldn't find Greg\tds210\Brooks" thread. For now it looks as if the best option is the box at the top of the window.
2 comments:
I'm happy to see that the simple search finally defaults to using AND on words seperated by a space instead of OR.
I agree that having the search automatically limited to the last 90 days isn't good. The default should be no limit.

[RayFarmer]

Hi tst,

No problem.

What's the difference between the top windows search and the one at the bottom of the screen.

Regards

[Ray.R]

Well,...

I'll be a ***CENSORED*** **blanked** ***Aiye-caramba!***.... 😉

Believe it or not, I never even noticed the search feature at the very top.
-deuh- 😛

WOW.. This one workes good (can't say great until I trully test it out).

Whatever the difference is, this one is better than the one at the bottom. 😄

It's at the VERY top.. That place in the clouds... 😉

Works!!

Try it Ray..


Ray (aka JLV... not to be confused with RF... euh not to be confused with Radio Frequencies)

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[Molly K]

JLV... aka Ray... aka RF... 🙂 -

These are two posts I had made in another thread to help clarify the search options previously:

Handy Forum Search Tips -

Searching from the main page (forums.ni.com) will search ALL boards in the forums.
Searching from a board page (http://forums.ni.com/ni/board?board.id=170) will search ONLY that board.
Searching from a thread page (forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=130&message.id=473) will search ONLY that board.

Using the Advanced Message Search (forums.ni.com/ni/search?advanced=true) it will default to include results from ALL boards, but you can select to limit the search to one board.
Using the Simple Message Search (forums.ni.com/ni/search?type=message&q=&page_size=10) it will search ALL boards.

Search results using the forum search index (any of the search boxes within the forum pages) will return each message separately in the results.
Search results using the Discussion Forums search in the header of the pages will return threads from ALL boards. These are indexed by a different search engine and should only return one result per thread instead of separate results for each message in the thread.

One additional search caveat I forgot to mention.. the search engine used at the top of the page does not currently index any of the content in the "Special Interest Boards" category.

Thanks,

[RayFarmer]

JLV,

That's the one I thought you were talking about, or are your pulling my........

Ray (not Ray aka JLV)

[tst]

Molly, the problem is that different places you search in give different results and you can look at the examples in this thread to see this. Even if there is a good reason for this, you can't expect users to realize what each box does. I can assure you that I won't remember what each one does. Until now, when I wanted to search for something, I would open the advanced page from my favorites menu. In the current situation, when I will want to search for something, I won't bother thinking about boards and threads - I will just go to the box at the top of the page, because that's the one that works.
There are several problems with this:
1) I want an advanced search page. I like being able to see my options and not having to worry about syntax.
2) I don't search for things only inside the forums. I may want to recieve results like KB articles and examples within the same search.
3) I'm not the only user around. You can see that even JLV didn't notice that box, and even if he had, there's no reason for him to know it's different. This way, even those users who do try searching for an answer before posting a question won't find what they're looking for and will post what would arguably be an unnecessary question (like all the basic question about property nodes, although I presume that people that post these kinds of questions haven't done their homework well, for whatever reason, and usually don't bother searching for the answer anyway). Also, as said, this prevents veteran users from finding their old answers.
I think this is the longest post I ever posted here. That is how much this troubles me (and other users).

[Ray.R]

Mr. Farmer,

Yes! That's the one

😄 😄