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Re: Google search?
29/01/2008 17:33
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IT IS AWEFUL!
This is a HUGE step backwards and will make use of the forum for research when looking for answers to questions we might have almost impossible.
Without the ability to select the forum and perhaps a date range you will get everything back from every forum... not very useful.
Also, even once the results are shown it is very difficult to determine if a post is potentially useful because there is no indication of which forum iti s from and the fact that the words "Yachting and Boating World forums" is on the front of every title means that more often than not the full title isn't even visible.
I do recognise that the old search may have been a major contributor to the performance issues but IMO this is not a solution. One of the biggest values of the forums to the membership is to be able to search on the wealth of knowledge that has been posted over time and this is woefully inadequate.
I really don't mean to just have a go and criticise. As an experienced MSSQL database designer and administrator I know that full text searches are very resource intensive but the solution isn't to remove the functionality if that is one of the primary benefits of the database in the first place.
Please develop a solution that allows for similar search parameters as before and presents the results in a way that reflects the search parameters so that they are useable.
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Paul Churchley
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Merry Fisher 625, Plymouth
Old ID: Arny
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