Ah, bounded Boolean logic... those were the days.

If they could programme in inference without implicature, we'd have one hell of a search engine on our hands :rolleyes:

010011100110010101110111001000000101001101100101
011000010111001001100011011010000010000001101001
011100110010000001110010011101010110001001100010
0110100101110011011010000010000000100001

;)

So, is anyone working on "Search" or is it just completely worthless now? No matter what words or phrases, I use, I get back a list of threads that has nothing to do with anything.

hmmmm-about 10 minutes ago, i did a bunch of searches using words i knew were in posts i had made and i got correct hits on all of them.

Really? Is that in a particlar forum? This morning I was trying in particular forums and would get pages and pages of supposed hits, but those phrases never appeared in the threads. I specifically chose to look on threads with only a few responses to make sure.

yes-it was in the ua forum as there were a few specific posts of mine i needed to call up. now, i don't know if this was the reason i was successful but i was searching by poster (me) and a single key word which i thought would be in the post i was looking for.

Example. In OMNI, I do a search for "Mother's Cookies".

Among many other threads, I get:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/omni/...ah-moment.html

Neither "Mother's" nor "Cookies" nor "Mother's Cookies" appear in this or, probably, any of the other threads.

"Mother" appears in one of the link URLs, contained in that thread:

hmmmm, i just did a "short search" using just the "search this forum box" just in omni uisng a copy and paste of Mother's Cookies and this thread (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/omni/...s-cookies.html) was on top of the list.

i also did the same in the aa forum using my handle as the search term and the thread i wanted was the first one listed

but...when i search from the main flyertalk forums page, using Mother's Cookies, the results are phuglied and all over the place with your "mother's cookies thread listed third.

now i'm confused....is search only fixed by forum as that's what it looks like....

For what it's worth, my "Mother's cookies" thread was created after I did the search and posted here. I knew I had posted something in the past. I was searching for that thread. When I couldn't find it, I created a new one. Further, my search was within the forum only.

now i'm puzzled......

As KVS noted above, if a search term appears in a link, even if the link isn't displayed, the post/thread will be captured by the search.

Be aware as well that the search will essentially ignore the apostrophe in Mother's, unless you place quotation marks around the word.

Thanks. The apostrophe is the least of the issues. Maybe it's just me, but I no longer find the function useful. To get page after page of useless threads in a search is a waste and very frustrating.

Annoying. Very annoying! :mad:

I now use Google to search FT.

The search function on this site has gone from being useless to totally useless.....a joke in fact. :td: