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Old 12-20-2008 | 02:35 PM
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Anyone know how the heck to get this search engine to search for ALL terms in the dialog box? I've tried:

AND
+
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"[search terms]"
term1-term2

...to no avail.
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Old 12-31-2008 | 05:27 AM
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Good question. Here's another- why is the Key Word search function so unreliable?

Ok I'll give an example. There exists the following thread in the Member Intros section that I posted about two years ago:

But when you run a key word search, you get:


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Old 12-31-2008 | 08:16 AM
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And we wonder why certain topics generate new threads every two weeks...
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Old 12-31-2008 | 08:23 AM
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Cubdriver, what's this about "child forums?"
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Old 12-31-2008 | 08:31 AM
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Guess it's the forums stacked under a larger category of forums
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Old 12-31-2008 | 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by vagabond
Cubdriver, what's this about "child forums?"
I think the software package APC uses is from vBulletin, and the search engine and its functions are theirs as well. Who knows what a child forum is unless it is a forum for kids? Or is it a technical term, I do not know.

As far as the unreliability of it, it worked well prior to the approximate time of the server change earlier this year (earlier in 2008) and I would hypothesize that has something to do with it. Maybe the user content was never indexed properly for the search engine to see because it obviously has it.

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Old 12-31-2008 | 09:53 AM
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Use the Google search in the upper left it's fully indexed, as noted the vBulletin search feature is not as robust.
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Old 01-01-2009 | 06:34 AM
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Google search in the upper left hand corner it is from now on, HSLD. Thanks!
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