PaulStoffregen
Well-known member
Currently the forum's search is nearly useless. We need search that doesn't suck.
I want to (eventually) look at these issues...
1: Somewhere in the upgrade to vbulletin 4.2.2 we lost 3 character indexing, and database errors started appearing. This needs to get fixed. I'm not sure how to do so, yet....
2: The vbulletin search has never been very effective. It usually returns far too many results and ranks them in a useless order. I don't know what can be done about that, if anything?
3: Apparently vbulletin supports a different search engine. Here's the setup info. Looks like some server side setup is needed. Maybe we should try this? I can't find much info about whether it works any better, or if the only real benefit it less load on the server (for forums with far more messages than we have).
4: Google search with "site:forum.pjrc.com" works pretty well. Maybe we should just abandon vbulletin search and find a way to make the forum search just use Google?
If anyone has any ideas or insight about this stuff, please comment. I want to get forum search working well. I'm mainly an electronics and software guy... so this IT stuff is a little outside of my core skill area.
I want to (eventually) look at these issues...
1: Somewhere in the upgrade to vbulletin 4.2.2 we lost 3 character indexing, and database errors started appearing. This needs to get fixed. I'm not sure how to do so, yet....
2: The vbulletin search has never been very effective. It usually returns far too many results and ranks them in a useless order. I don't know what can be done about that, if anything?
3: Apparently vbulletin supports a different search engine. Here's the setup info. Looks like some server side setup is needed. Maybe we should try this? I can't find much info about whether it works any better, or if the only real benefit it less load on the server (for forums with far more messages than we have).
4: Google search with "site:forum.pjrc.com" works pretty well. Maybe we should just abandon vbulletin search and find a way to make the forum search just use Google?
If anyone has any ideas or insight about this stuff, please comment. I want to get forum search working well. I'm mainly an electronics and software guy... so this IT stuff is a little outside of my core skill area.