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Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by tkarrow, Nov 27, 2014.

  1. tkarrow

    tkarrow Weekend Warrior

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    Site administrators..... Justin?

    In an attempt to search for some content, I have run into an issue with the format available for searching.

    I recall someone asking a few months ago about hunting a stand the day after a missed shot was made on a deer or a deer was killed. I had that happen to me last night so I thought I would look to see what was said, as I can't remember and I want to get back in that same stand.

    In trying to search for this post, I do not see any way to link words into phrases so when I search, "shot a deer and missed it, can I hunt the same stand the next day" (or something like that), the search engine searches for each word independently leaving thousands of possible posts... can you guys either tell me how to do this properly OR adapt the system to include phrase searching?

    I think doing this might alleviate the repetitive posts that seem to keep occurring... "mechanical vs. fixed blade"... etc. as people may be able to find relevant posts more readily thus reducing redundancy.

    Thanks, Tom
     
  2. Justin

    Justin Administrator

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    The built-in VBulletin search definitely sucks. I'm not entirely sure what our options for changing it or upgrading it are but I'll look into them and see what we can do.
     
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    dhd Weekend Warrior

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    What happens is you're searching what's called key words. Key words would be like shot, missed, same stand. Those key words would get better results than words like, the , a, and. Words like that are to common.
     

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