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[Forum] Search returns too much results
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2020 10:10 am
by Kuxynator
If I search for "no sound" it returns all with "sound" this is not usefull.
So I can not find known issues.
Maybe there is a query syntax to support this. but i could not found the exact syntax.
The common syntax "double quotes" did not work.
Re: [Forum] Search returns too much results
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2020 12:42 pm
by Loewchen
That is not a bug.
Re: [Forum] Search returns too much results
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2020 1:40 pm
by Koub
The smallest word the forum accepts is 3 letters. And indeed, there is unfortunately no advanced search syntax as "between quotes", or -unwanted or stuff.
[Koub] Also moving the thread to This Forum.
Re: [Forum] Search returns too much results
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2020 1:55 pm
by Jap2.0
Koub wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 1:40 pm
The smallest word the forum accepts is 3 letters. And indeed, there is unfortunately no advanced search syntax as "between quotes", or -unwanted or stuff.
[Koub] Also moving the thread to This Forum.
"-" should work.
Re: [Forum] Search returns too much results
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:31 pm
by Amarula
One of my first posts on these forums came from a search that returned no results. It still makes me chuckle:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=62504&hilit=train
Re: [Forum] Search returns too much results
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:56 am
by Kuxynator
"-" should work.
No unfortunately not. "no-sound" returns 252 pages with articles containing "sound". This is not helpful.
phpbb seems to be not the best choice in this case.
...some time later...
For others having the same prob. google does its job
"no sound" site:
https://forums.factorio.com/
returns 86 results containing "no sound"
Re: [Forum] Search returns too much results
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 8:09 am
by Pi-C
Never tried that before, but using this search string (with just one "https://"!) with
duckduckgo also works. No need to google everything.
Re: [Forum] Search returns too much results
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:14 pm
by Kuxynator
(with just one "https://"!) with
duckduckgo also works. No need to google everything.
Yes of course only one https
And other search engines also work. Google is default on chrome
so this was the first approach
Re: [Forum] Search returns too much results
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 3:35 pm
by jamiechi1
So using google search is the only way to search for a string that might contain special characters like the '-' or '_'.
such as:
site:forums.factorio.com "create-blueprint-item"
This worked for me. I am too lazy to type the other characters.