Being a cauldron of insecurity, I like to do a vanity search now and then, (every five minutes)(just kidding)(or am I?), but the search doesn’t find all instances where I’ve received replies to posts I’ve made.
For instance, in this glorious thread, I receive a direct response here, but if I search for Purd or Purd Werfect, the last thread that shows is from May of this year. I know there’s other threads which serve as examples also, but, alas, I’m unable to find them.
So what’s the deal? Am I doomed to go unrewarded in my pathetic desire for anonymous message board quasi-validation?
It’s a VBB function, not a SDMB function, I believe. That means waiting on an eventual upgrade to a new version of VBB. And Jerry is, for good reason, loath to implement upgrades (both due to cost and waiting until the bugs have been identified and corrected).
So all sites using vbulletin 3.0.7 have a poorly-functioning search engine? That seems odd. (Not trying to be flippant, that does truly seem unlikely.)
I think the search didn’t bring up the post you linked to because he didn’t use the words you searched for. They were contained in the quotes in his post, which I think the search feature ignores.
Good call, that appears to be the case. If so, that’s still a pretty big flaw, as conceivably many responses will only contain the user’s name or search term within the quotes.
I know it’s not ideal, but if an update to the vbulletin software needs to be done to fix it, then it should be done. Otherwise just turn searching off if it’s only going to be half-useful.
Yeah, I overstated myself there. My vanity searches are meaningless enough, but it would just be nice to trust the thouroughness of other searches that I might do. And if I actually paid money to own vbulletin, I’d be pretty irked at the obvious flaw. Something like searching within quotes or avoiding same should be a simple toggle feature of the search function.
