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.
RAZD writes:
This works especially well if you remember a specific phase that you want to find,
Like "the thirteen clocks" as you can put the phrase in quotes to find it.
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.
-- | Percy |
| EvC Forum Director |