# Search engine improved?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-engine-improved/297922>\
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**Created:** [April 5, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-engine-improved/297922 "2005-04-05T21:52:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-engine-improved/297922/1 "2005-04-05T21:52:43Z")

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The search engine under this new version seems to be working better for us\* than the one with the older VB version. Anyone else notice this?

(\*the royal us.)

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**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-engine-improved/297922/2 "2005-04-05T21:58:47Z")

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And for the record, we are pleased.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-engine-improved/297922/3 "2005-04-05T22:53:49Z")

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> [@neuroman](#):
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> And for the record, we are pleased.

As are we.

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**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-engine-improved/297922/4 "2005-04-06T06:18:03Z")

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Searching for “Everyone else has had more sex than me” still yields the result

> [@](#):
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> Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.
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> The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : Everyone, else, has, had, more, sex, than, me

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-engine-improved/297922/5 "2005-04-06T16:46:39Z")

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The new search engine is very rapid, and you have to be also because the searchid expires very rapidly also. Forget about doing a search and pasting the searchresults URL into a post, it’ll be a dead link by lunchtime.

The main casualty is the usefulness of the New Posts button.

On the plus side, it appears that I can actually find threads I’m looking for for the first time in aeons. Better indexing or protection from disruptive cacheing or something of the sort?