Confused by searches via the search box

markywilliam

Hi everyone!

Has the way the search box/search engine works been changed sometime in the past few months, 'cos I'm sure it used to work differently.
Previously (unless I'm misremembering!) typing, for example, danny boy (no quotes, no caps and searching just within the torrent name or filename) would bring up any and all films with both of those words anywhere in the title, in any order, any placement in the title, caps ignored.

Now, typing danny boy into the box gives me no results at all.
Typing Danny Boy gives me no results
But typing danny (or, indeed, Danny) gives me pages and pages of results, the third one being TimJack - Danny Boy

Why isn't that picked up by either the first or second searches?

Another example is vids from TheCastingRoom: typing The Casting Room - or the casting room - gives me no results.
Casting Room gives no results.
CastingRoom gives 12
TheCastingRoom gives 80 of them! LOL

Am I missing some obvious bit of logic here? How does the search engine parse the search text?

cheers guys!
Mxx

raphjd

I don't know if it's directly linked, but it happened about the same time several issues popped up in the software.

The site owner's 1st priority is to site/member safety.

Site performance and bug fixes are secondary. Sadly, whatever is causing this large set of issues seems to be a bitch to track down.

kalayaan

Try typing "danny boy" (include quotation mark before and after the words) and it will yield 21 results

markywilliam

Cheers guys!

I've just tried "danny boy" (double quotes) and got five results; 'danny boy' (single quotes) gives me five as well. How weird! I'm using Firefox on Win 7… wonder if that is somehow making a difference... scratches head

Mxx

kalayaan

The Search/Browse is back to normal without the added quotation/apostrophe

markywilliam

But still no ability to type in two words - say 'breeder fuckers' (without the quotes) - and get all results with both words either standing alone or butted up to each other…?

breederfuckers - 264 results
breeder fuckers - 36 results.

very sad face

Mxx

in2unow123

@markywilliam:

But still no ability to type in two words - say 'breeder fuckers' (without the quotes) - and get all results with both words either standing alone or butted up to each other…?

breederfuckers - 264 results
breeder fuckers - 36 results.

very sad face

Mxx

You mean as in:

"Bredder" & "Fuckers" - 85 results?
"BreederFuckers" - 285 Results?
"Breeder Fuckers" - 80 results?
"Breeder&Fuckers" - 1,465 results?

markywilliam

Yup! It's crazy, isn't it? LOL

Mxx

bwonder

Everything on the site is confusing.

gaymertr

search is broken again…

JWF

what I find very confusing is that the "browse" option is really the search function, and the "search" function is really for browsing.