⚡ ❗ Can AZBilliards’ search program be improved? ⚡ ❗

[loggerhead12]

The software probably immediately turns the "." into a space because a dot doesn't belong in the middle of a word. It probably does that to a lot of other symbols, too. At that point it thinks you're looking for two very short words.

Yep. This fixes that issue.

 

[Sheldon]

I use a browser addon for firefox called swift selection search. It's one of the most useful browser tools I've ever found. Anything I highlight can be instantly searched with whatever engine I have configured. I created one for here and it works great. Searching through google is also helpful, and adding quotes to certain strings or words is another good trick.

https://forums.azbilliards.com/search/837462/?q={searchTerms}

 

[Bob Jewett]

I use a browser addon for firefox called swift selection search. It's one of the most useful browser tools I've ever found. Anything I highlight can be instantly searched with whatever engine I have configured. I created one for here and it works great. Searching through google is also helpful, and adding quotes to certain strings or words is another good trick.

https://forums.azbilliards.com/search/837462/?q={searchTerms}

Chrome has a built-in feature that right-click on highlighted text offers "Search Google for..."

 

[jimmyco]

Sometimes that's the only way, but that can't do things like set poster's name or date range or title.

As a reminder, to limit Google search results to a particular web site, you need to use the "site:" flag in your search terms, such as:

site:forums.azbilliards.com cynergy

For a particular poster's name (including your own) and approximate date, you can go to the poster's profile and select messages and click on the number, in your instance, 28K+.
Everything posted comes up.

This is how I found the thread in question in a matter of seconds, without leaving the site.

 

[Black-Balled]

Without any question, AZ's search function is the worst I have ever used.

Ha ..try Microsoft Outlook.

I called my admin into my office just yesterday to ask why I couldn't find any emails for a specific case# that I copied the case# from the gawdamn email I was looking at.

 

[Paul_#_]

For a particular poster's name (including your own) and approximate date, you can go to the poster's profile and select messages and click on the number, in your instance, 28K+.
Everything posted comes up.

Search through Google and include AZBilliards

Yep. Going to the world's internet and using Google search works better than asking within AZBilliards to find my posts with words in the title 10.5mm shaft! Its better than sifting through one's posts in a person's profile as jimmyco did. I don't think you need to remember the search string site:forums.azbilliards.com 10.5mm shaft ___ Do a normal Google search and include the word AZBilliards to the search

Here are the results of a Google search azbilliards 10.5mm shaft

 

[Black-Balled]

Yep. Going to the world's internet and using Google search works better than asking within AZBilliards to find my posts with words in the title 10.5mm shaft! I don't think you need to remember the search string site:forums.azbilliards.com 10.5mm shaft ___ Do a normal Google search but include the word AZBilliards

Here are the results of such a search


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He added, invalidating the need for discourse in whole.

 

[claymont]

All this guy does is bitch about how AZ runs. Either there's not enuff space for his pics(learn to downsize nimrod) or now its how the search works. Look, if its so bad you need to contact AZ HQ directly and quit wasting that precious bandwith you love burning up with your whining.

And how much "precious bandwidth" do your grumpy/whinny posts waste? How about leaving it up to the Admin/Moderators to consider what's wasteful?

 

[Cornerman]

Ha ..try Microsoft Outlook.

I called my admin into my office just yesterday to ask why I couldn't find any emails for a specific case# that I copied the case# from the gawdamn email I was looking at.

Ditto. Nuts.

 

[justadub]

Yep. Going to the world's internet and using Google search works better than asking within AZBilliards to find my posts with words in the title 10.5mm shaft! Its better than sifting through one's posts in a person's profile as jimmyco did. I don't think you need to remember the search string site:forums.azbilliards.com 10.5mm shaft ___ Do a normal Google search and include the word AZBilliards to the search

Here are the results of a Google search azbilliards 10.5mm shaft


Alternatively, if you're just searching for posts of your own, you can go to your profile and it shows your posts there. Click on your name in the upper right hand corner, and you'll see an option for "your content"

 

[Black-Balled]

Ditto. Nuts.

Wtf? I'm technologically handicapped,but you too?!?!
Hahaha

 

[Brookeland Bill]

I searched for posts that contained the following: 10.5mm

And for only those posts that had been posted by me.

The search comes back

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Can the search program be upgraded?

I quit trying to use ‘search’. It takes you everywhere but where you want to go.

 

[jasonlaus]

The search feature has to have at least four-letter words to take effect. One cannot search for three-letter words.

That said, I come back to AzBilliards frequently to search for pool data and photos that have been posted in the past. This forum is actually a great pool archives. It's a gold mine for me.

It should work flawlessly for me - once I search and use 3 letter words and I get nothing for half an hour, I start using all kinds of 4 letter words