WHY ISN'T THE SEARCH FUNCTION DATE-SENSITIVE?

[Old Professer]

I just did a search on N. Korea to see if the latest Drudge headline was already posted and the display was dated all over the place: old ones before newer ones and no order that I could tell.

Does anyone else think this is a problem?

[Old Professer]

If I am doing something wrong, please accept my apology; but I have avoided using search for awhile now because of this.

[LouD]

Select "Order by Post Time" in the third pulldown, instead of "Order by Relevance"

[jimkress]

Give up. Many people on FR have asked Jim Robinson to make the 'search' function default to date. He never answers the requests nor does he fix the problem.

[Charles Henrickson]

Does anyone else think this is a problem?

Yes. The default is set for "Order by relevance." Like you--and like these other posters, apparently--I wish it were set for "Order by post time."

[George from New England]

Maybe the default should be programmed to be:

"Order by Post Time"

[ConfusedAndLovingIt]

Maybe the default should be programmed to be: "Order by Post Time"

Yes!

Jim, you know we love you, but please, please, please, please fix that. It's the one thing that would make this site perfect. We'd never complain about anything else if you just fixed that one little thing. Honest.

[Charles Henrickson]

Two. There are two little things I would fix.

Number One, as has been mentioned, is to make the search feature default to "order by post time."

Number Two is to give the regular, ongoing, everyday threads their own "room" (not necessarily "smoky"), instead of letting them dominate "General Interest" (aka "Chat," aka "The Island of Misfit Threads"). Usually when I go to General Interest, 70% of the messages I see posted are "Hobbit Hole," 20% are the daily threads (e.g., "Word of the Day"), and lost in the mix are a few, scattered posts on new threads.

[steplock]

GOOGLE SEARCH like a PRO!

you know the website you want to search but aren't sure where the information is located within that site, you can use Google to search only that domain. Do this by entering what you're looking for followed by the word "site" and a colon followed by the domain name.

For example, to find all articles that contain the word ZORRO at the FREEREPUBLIC.com site:

zorro site:www.freerepublic.com

THis is much more accurate than the site search found on here that ONLY looks a titles - NOT content!!

The more information you can enter before "site:freerepublic.com" the more concise the results

[Lorianne]

Thanks! That works well.

[4mycountry]

And while you're at it, stop pulling all the threads! Get those Mods under control, it's drving everyone up the wall! PLEASE!!

[weegee]

Can you imagine how many matches you'd get searching for moose or cheese...

[Samurai_Jack]

WOW!

Thats a powerful tool!

[Tamzee]

Very helpful, thank you :-)

[twas]

The search function is almost useless.

They want you to search for articles to prevent re-posts but a search, even of an exact phrase, will yeild weird results.

[WKB]

Give up. Many people on FR have asked Jim Robinson to make the 'search' function default to date. He never answers the requests nor does he fix the problem.



Maybe we could remind him the next we take up the offering.

[P.O.E.]

Wow! Thanks!

[Izzy Dunne]

Your date is sensitive when you search her?
This is the wrong forum for THAT.... ;->

[talleyman]

"Order by Post Time"

I always order by post time - otherwise you miss the start of the race.

[Coleus]

click order by relevance and the thing opens up and "select" order by post time.

[Dog Gone]

Use search, anyway. It takes just one more click to make it by post time.

Having said that, I've had a thread discussion with Jim about this very issue, and he was unable to dispute the contention that post time should be the default setting.

He was not very sympathetic to the fact that it takes an extra mouse click and retrieval time to do the search correctly, though.