Searching
Jul 8, 2001 | 5:33 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 702
Searching
I thought there was- maybe i'm blind, but how about a search for the whole board instead of each forum.
Jul 8, 2001 | 11:07 pm
#2
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Hong Kong
Posts: 314
I agree on this one, we use to be able to do search the whole board for topics instead of one forum at a time, my concern is that there probably are some forums I fail to search which has information that I'm looking for.
Jul 9, 2001 | 7:12 am
#3
Join Date: Jun 1999
Posts: 539
I agree. It's rather frustrating to have limited searches.
Here's the discussion on this topic from earlier this year. It includes the "official" response from the Webflyer folks.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum72/HTML/000270.html
I would've thought that upgrading capabilties to handle search would be included in this new FT, but I guess not....
Here's the discussion on this topic from earlier this year. It includes the "official" response from the Webflyer folks.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum72/HTML/000270.html
I would've thought that upgrading capabilties to handle search would be included in this new FT, but I guess not....
Jul 9, 2001 | 7:24 am
#4
Join Date: Jun 1999
Posts: 539
Here's an (possibly heretical) idea:
How about charging a extremely nominal fee (e.g. $0.10-$0.15) per "All Forum" search?
As I understand it, the limitation at the moment is computing resource issue - presumably a seperate search server would need to be set up, to handle indexing, search requests, etc.
Charging a fee would cover those costs.
I know this is somewhat contrary to the prevailing philosophy of offering all FT resources for free to everyone. Yet, right now, with "everything free", we don't have a "All Forum" search option.
Just thinking outside the box...
How about charging a extremely nominal fee (e.g. $0.10-$0.15) per "All Forum" search?
As I understand it, the limitation at the moment is computing resource issue - presumably a seperate search server would need to be set up, to handle indexing, search requests, etc.
Charging a fee would cover those costs.
I know this is somewhat contrary to the prevailing philosophy of offering all FT resources for free to everyone. Yet, right now, with "everything free", we don't have a "All Forum" search option.
Just thinking outside the box...
Jul 9, 2001 | 1:28 pm
#5
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Brasil and Hong Kong
Posts: 894
I miss a search tool for the last post by a member, regardless the forum. Like "When/where Doc posted last time in whole FT?"