Suggestion Remove the search limits

[Margen67]

If you search with words shorter than five letters you get this error:

"The search could not be completed because the search keywords were too short, too long, or too common."
It doesn't make very much sense to have a search function that doesn't search..

 

[Margen67]

@p1ngpong Are you going to comment on this?

 

[p1ngpong]

@p1ngpong Are you going to comment on this?

Use google.

 

[Margen67]

Use google.

That doesn't always work, though.

 

[mgrev]

That doesn't always work, though.

site:gbatemp.net would work (you probably know this), but searching on the actual site is better

 

[Margen67]

site:gbatemp.net would work (you probably know this), but searching on the actual site is better

Exactly. Which is why the site's search should be improved.

 

[The Catboy]

That doesn't always work, though.

Use Google, the built-in search for the Temp sucks horribly.

 

[Bedel]

I agree you could allways just search in google, but if we have a tool that sucks as much people says, we should change it. It's just common sence.

 

[hobbledehoy899]

Use Google, the built-in search for the Temp sucks horribly.

And so why shouldn't it be improved?

 

[The Catboy]

And so why shouldn't it be improved?

That is a question for the staff. I am just a lowly filthy Filetrip slut.

 

[FAST6191]

I quite like the inbuilt search and use it all the time but being one those yellow bastards I have no limits on using it. I imagine waiting between searches if I doing a recursive/narrowing/list of possibilities/typoed/forgot to uncheck this forum only or something similar would get annoying if cooldowns were in place.

Anyway I am not sure if the limits are there because they were enabled when the hosting was not a robust, because they were turned on because of a glut of users or because they are still needed. It might be worth considering dropping restrictions down to full members, maybe newcomers. However I am not the server bother here so I will leave that for others.

 

[Bubsy Bobcat]

I too think the site's search is quite poor. I think they should just switch it to a "Google Powered" one, so whatever your search will have "site:gbatemp.net" added to the beginning of it.

 

[Deleted User]

I too think the site's search is quite poor. I think they should just switch it to a "Google Powered" one, so whatever your search will have "site:gbatemp.net" added to the beginning of it.

You mean like this?

 

[Bubsy Bobcat]

You mean like this?

That's actually better than what I was thinking.

 

[BORTZ]

You mean like this?

I have been here 8 years and still cant make heads or tails of the on site search. Not once has it returned a useful result. Not once. Sure, "use google" is fine, but why not make it just slightly easier for me and the rest of the member base? I am in favor of this plugin.

 

[migles]

I too think the site's search is quite poor. I think they should just switch it to a "Google Powered" one, so whatever your search will have "site:gbatemp.net" added to the beginning of it.

I have been here 8 years and still cant make heads or tails of the on site search. Not once has it returned a useful result. Not once. Sure, "use google" is fine, but why not make it just slightly easier for me and the rest of the member base? I am in favor of this plugin.

i am the only one which always found frustrating google powered searches?
unless it's improved... in the past i was in a few forums and sites that had that google search thing.. it never showed what i wanted.. but if i searched on google itself it worked pretty well..

 

[Feeling it!]

I have had this problem while looking for "NTR" in the 3ds homebrew section.