The Search Function

Advantages of EvC's native search over Google:

• Finds messages rather than pages of 15 messages.
• Finds all text rather than just text entered prior to Google's last indexing, which only occurs every 2 or 3 days.

By default EvC orders the search results in reverse chronological order. Google can do the same, but you have to select a date ordered search first. Phrases work with the native search facility, as does wildcarding, e.g., "dog*" will find both dog and dogmatic. You can also make searches conditional. For example, "|Percy |RAZD" will find all messages that contain either Percy or RAZD or both. I'd prefer to be able to say "Percy | RAZD", and that will eventually happen, but that takes more parser work, and as I often say, there's only one of me.Upcoming feature: display the found text in a different color or with a different background color. Then hook it into an incremental search facility that positions the page at each instance of found text in sequence.Another upcoming feature: ability to select the sort order for search results. Currently only reverse chronological is done, but in the future you'll be able to sort by author, subject, thread, forum, etc.I should add that there's no schedule for these improvements. I'm currently in the midst of productization of the board software with its current feature set.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Just to be clear about my own position, I'm fully in favor of click reduction, it just isn't always obvious how best to achieve it for the most people.The question I'm most interested in answering is whether a majority prefer a default of "All Forums" or of "The Forum I'm in Now." (If you're not on a forum specific page then the default is already "All Forums".)

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Yeah, you're voting. I'll change the default to "All Forums" when I make the other search related changes if that's the way it comes down in this thread.Edited by Admin, : Change author.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

This search issue has been addressed.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Logging in again shouldn't help. Is this happening after you click on the Search link that's in the list of links at the top the page? Or when you click on the Search button next to the text box?When you get the dispatch table error, what's in the browser's address box?

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Whichever browser you use, there should be a "Reload" or "Refresh" button with the other buttons at the top. Does it start working after you click on that?

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

Thanks for letting me know, I'll fix it tonight.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

On second thought, this is fixed.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director