Forum Search is not accurate

[fnoyanisi]

Hi there,

Asking google to bring "site:forums.freebsd.org cas latency" works fine, but when the same search phrase (cas latency) supplied to forum's search box, it does not return anything. I would expect to see at least the same number of results from forum's own search function.

 

[tobik@]

If you put your search phrase in quotes you get an almost identical result (I hope I can just link to a search): https://forums.freebsd.org/search/5221466/?q="cas+latency"&o=date

Is there a guide to searching in XenForo somewhere?

 

[drhowarddrfine]

I would expect to see at least the same number of results from forum's own search function.

I wouldn't. Google's function is as sophisticated as you can get while the XenForo one is ... well ... you already know.

 

[jrm@]

Maybe I'm missing something, but a text search on the database field(s) should be enough sophistication to do the job. I suspect the problem is that's it's expensive to do that, so certain searches, like searches for short, common words are turned off.

DutchDaemon says the issue is that searching for terms under four characters is turned off. See this this post.