TPB Smart search

[s1raz1]

Help users find what they want by providing aprox. search results rather than 100% accurate keyword input, a few times i got the no results page because of a typo, i know the typo was my fault but if the system helped me by showing me choices aprox to the word i was typing it would have been better.

[Moe]

So because you fail at typing, others should get results unrelated to what they are searching for, simply because they are similar?

[LowOrbit]

Use the * wildcard

[s1raz1]

Are you kidding me?
Every site with a decent search engine offer results according to the word being typed on, this is the suggestion thread, TPB need to improve its search engine
If you guys want to keep holding on to the past by not improving the site one bit its your call. Using exact keyword search is almost 10 y.o technology and how is people are going to get unrelated results if they are typing part of the word they are looking for and the site will offer them a quick way to autofill the thing they need.

[Cerberus]

Are you kidding me?
Every site with a decent search engine offer results according to the word being typed on, this is the suggestion thread, TPB need to improve its search engine
If you guys want to keep holding on to the past by not improving the site one bit its your call. Using exact keyword search is almost 10 y.o technology and how is people are going to get unrelated results if they are typing part of the word they are looking for and the site will offer them a quick way to autofill the thing they need.

thast what the * key is for.

[Moe]

how is people are going to get unrelated results if they are typing part of the word they are looking for and the site will offer them a quick way to autofill the thing they need.

Way to change your suggestion halfway through the thread.

What you are asking for now is autocompletion.  Before you wanted it to fix your bad typing.


TPB's search engine is one of the worst, no doubt about that.


Autocomplete is a pretty big resource demand, both on the database and bandwidth. But at least that is a more reasonable suggestion than to expect it to understand bad spelling.

[michaelmotes]

how is people are going to get unrelated results if they are typing part of the word they are looking for and the site will offer them a quick way to autofill the thing they need.

Way to change your suggestion halfway through the thread.

What you are asking for now is autocompletion.  Before you wanted it to fix your bad typing.


TPB's search engine is one of the worst, no doubt about that.


Autocomplete is a pretty big resource demand, both on the database and bandwidth. But at least that is a more reasonable suggestion than to expect it to understand bad spelling.

I just want the wildcard work. Wildcard * doesn't work for me, it just seams to break the search and always return no results.