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Quote from: Adiepretty on August 25, 2024, 12:05:17 AM

-snip- im new here and any help and would be highly appreciated.

For OP and other newbies: Use quotation marks to be accurate but keep it not-too-specific, then exclude the wildcards from the quoted phrase.
And you must go to the board or topic where you want to search before typing any word, or else, it will search the whole forum or the topic that's open.

By default, the forum search bar will take all the words and search topic containing those words in any order,
for specific search, enclose the phrase inside quotation marks so 'search' would search for that phrase instead of individual words.
And it will only search within the board or topic that's currently open (displayed in the URL), not in the entire forum.

For example, if you want to check if someone posted a similar topic here in Beginners' Board:

Go to 'Beginners and Help' board: /index.php?board=39.0 (Open in new tab)
In that tab where Beginners and Help board is open, type: "Search Bar" (including the quotation marks "")
Click "Search".

That way, the forum will search for topics containing "search bar" instead of "search" and "bar" where the latter included some unrelated topics.
For wildcards, you can add other words outside of the quote, like: "search bar" working
In this case, the forum will search for topics with both "search bar" and "working".

Generally, the default search bar is quite as powerful as the forum's search page, it's just unintuitive since there's no visible options to toggle.

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OP, it is true that the search engine here is somewhat stressful and does not give accurate results according to the command prompt. However, I would advise that you also make use of the ninjastic.space so that you could be able to see for yourself what you want to see on the platform. Although some member's have already pinpointed some aspect where they feel is alright with your curiosity and I believe that it can also help you scale through without much challenges.

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Better use different search engine. The forum search engine sucks but it works like searching for a username and will show results. If you want to look for the same topic as your question then you better use ninjastic.space and it works great. You can also use it to search for topic id, user id and more. So once again, the forum search engine is like that for a long time that's why we use different search engine.

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Quote from: Hamza2424 on August 29, 2024, 10:01:05 AM

✔️ You can choose A particular section,
✔️ You can even Include the child boards within a section
✔️ You can set the custom timeline in order to search the latest relevant posts
✔️ You can even search for a particular topic within a section
✔️ you can search from a users post history within a section.

I would need to study this new option you dropped because I also have same observation as the OP on the efficiency of the forum's Search Bar feature. It does not seem to work best for me also. Now I will try and experiment the new link you dropped. I will drop a review of my experience. Thank you for the recommendation.

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Quote from: Adiepretty on August 25, 2024, 12:05:17 AM

when i would try to search something so that i could know whether someone has already posted it before or when i have a question to ask and i would search it in the search bar, almost all the time nothing would show up. But if something would to show up, nothing would be related to my search only words in my search that i used most would show up. i want to follow the rules of this forum so that this community will have and stay to have quality posters and members. im new here and any help and would be highly appreciated.

Bro, the Search bar is working properly but I do acknowledge what are you trying to say, TBH if you really want to utilize the search bar you need to use an efficient query, the choice of keywords should be general. At the same time in my view if there's an option for filtering search by topic or search by post would be greatly helpful.

if you want to search within a topic or with any customization you can check out the https://ninjastic.space/ here you can analyze any topic on any keyword. The results are quite relevant, and you can search for any content within a particular section.

Here are some samples...

✔️ You can choose A particular section,
✔️ You can even Include the child boards within a section
✔️ You can set the custom timeline in order to search the latest relevant posts
✔️ You can even search for a particular topic within a section
✔️ you can search from a users post history within a section.

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Quote from: Adiepretty on August 25, 2024, 12:05:17 AM

when i would try to search something so that i could know whether someone has already posted it before or when i have a question to ask and i would search it in the search bar, almost all the time nothing would show up.

I am not using search bar in forum for a long time, instead I switched to ninjastic.space website, that is much more precise and faster way to find what I am looking for.
This is community made project that can be used for other stuff also, but I think Ninjastic recently made another bitcointalk search project.
This project is still in BETA phase:
https://search-beta.ninjastic.space/

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Quote from: Adiepretty on August 25, 2024, 12:05:17 AM

when i would try to search something so that i could know whether someone has already posted it before or when i have a question to ask and i would search it in the search bar, almost all the time nothing would show up. But if something would to show up, nothing would be related to my search only words in my search that i used most would show up. i want to follow the rules of this forum so that this community will have and stay to have quality posters and members. im new here and any help and would be highly appreciated.

You can try filtering on your search result accessibilities as similar results might be displayed on highlights. You might also get some related searched topics of same preference but of different mode.
While using the main or general search source, you can as well search in between the forum boards by which of your thought could be where such topic could be found
Like others has said, the forum goes weird at times and due to ineffectiveness of the search space, some posts topics are assumed spamming.

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Quote from: acroman08 on August 25, 2024, 12:28:51 PM

Quote from: Adiepretty on August 25, 2024, 12:05:17 AM

when i would try to search something so that i could know whether someone has already posted it before or when i have a question to ask and i would search it in the search bar, almost all the time nothing would show up. But if something would to show up, nothing would be related to my search only words in my search that i used most would show up.

you'd be better off using other search engines to look for information in the forum than using the forum's search feature. just make sure to add the "bitcointalk" keyword when searching on other search engines.

Quote from: Deenaxyz on August 25, 2024, 10:04:58 AM

Thank you for this, I was as confused as the OP when I first try the search bar on the uperr right, then I realized there is the "search" menu on the upper left, but I was taken back of how complicated it is.

at first glance maybe it looks complicated but it really is not and you can easily figure out how to use it. that being said, the forum search feature does suck.

Thank you for the encouragement, tranthidung have provided some topics which contains several guides on how to use the search menu optimally.

But, again it is still kinda complicated, but eventually I will get used with it.

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Quote from: reagansimms on August 25, 2024, 09:53:26 PM

Using a Google search is more effective than searching on forums, Google can display more complex results according to the keywords entered

You can use some third party search tools built by the forum members too.

Like the beta version of Ninjastic.space search that can be more helpful than Google search.
[BETA] NEW ninjastic.space search
https://search-beta.ninjastic.space

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Quote from: PX-Z on August 25, 2024, 06:52:07 PM

Quote from: Adiepretty on August 25, 2024, 12:05:17 AM

when i would try to search something so that i could know whether someone has already posted it before or when i have a question to ask and i would search it in the search bar, almost all the time nothing would show up. ...

Use google instead together with keywords and "site:bitcointalk.org" it will show topics related to your search only from bitcointalk if there is something related to it. Forum search doesn't work sometimes depends on your search keywords, that's why forum recommends using google search too.

Using a Google search is more effective than searching on forums, Google can display more complex results according to the keywords entered. It is no wonder that members on forums prefer to use Google search rather than forum search because the results displayed are very different. Members on the forum recommend Google search for their own reasons and it doesn't mean that the search engine on the forum doesn't have the ability to return better results, I also often use it when searching for something light, but if I want to see related topics, I will switch there.

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Quote from: Adiepretty on August 25, 2024, 12:05:17 AM

when i would try to search something so that i could know whether someone has already posted it before or when i have a question to ask and i would search it in the search bar, almost all the time nothing would show up. ...

Use google instead together with keywords and "site:bitcointalk.org" it will show topics related to your search only from bitcointalk if there is something related to it. Forum search doesn't work sometimes depends on your search keywords, that's why forum recommends using google search too.

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I think the search bar that you use is the forum search box it is not working properly since before if you want to find the right thread or post use the advanced option.

You can find the advanced option in magnifying glass near the forum search box it looks like this below

and then use the google search make sure it set to relevance so that it only shows the thread that you were looking for.

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Quote from: Adiepretty on August 25, 2024, 12:05:17 AM

when i would try to search something so that i could know whether someone has already posted it before or when i have a question to ask and i would search it in the search bar, almost all the time nothing would show up. But if something would to show up, nothing would be related to my search only words in my search that i used most would show up.

you'd be better off using other search engines to look for information in the forum than using the forum's search feature. just make sure to add the "bitcointalk" keyword when searching on other search engines.

Quote from: Deenaxyz on August 25, 2024, 10:04:58 AM

Thank you for this, I was as confused as the OP when I first try the search bar on the uperr right, then I realized there is the "search" menu on the upper left, but I was taken back of how complicated it is.

at first glance maybe it looks complicated but it really is not and you can easily figure out how to use it. that being said, the forum search feature does suck.

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[Guide] Searching effectively. It's my thread.

There are some threads for reference and further reading as well.

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Quote from: Helena Yu on August 25, 2024, 12:17:11 AM

The forum search engine sucks, don't use it again. It's actually working, but the result is terrible especially if you're writing quite long, it might show no results.

It's better for you to use google search or ninjastic.space.

The forum rules is here Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ

Thank you for this, I was as confused as the OP when I first try the search bar on the uperr right, then I realized there is the "search" menu on the upper left, but I was taken back of how complicated it is.

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Quote from: Adiepretty on August 25, 2024, 12:05:17 AM

when i would try to search something so that i could know whether someone has already posted it before or when i have a question to ask and i would search it in the search bar, almost all the time nothing would show up. But if something would to show up, nothing would be related to my search only words in my search that i used most would show up. i want to follow the rules of this forum so that this community will have and stay to have quality posters and members. im new here and any help and would be highly appreciated.

I already responded to this similar question when you replied to my comment in the trading board. I'll make this same reply here again in addition to what others have written and based on my personal experience. Okay, so I had the same issues when I registered on the forum and was still learning how things worked. I noticed that whenever I used the search bar on the top right corner of the screen, the results where the as what you have explained. But then I discovered that there was another search at the top left side of the screen. And this one gave the expected results. Have you tried it?

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Quote from: m2017 on August 25, 2024, 06:06:52 AM

I tried to use the forum search bar several times, but each time it returned results (posts) from about 10 years ago, after which I don't even think about using the search.

Searching help.

With forum search tool, you can customize it with Message age and if you only want to get results in the last 1 year, set it as between 0 and 365 days. Increase the number to the one for 2 years, 3 years for example.

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Message age sets the minimum and maximum ages of posts to search.

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Quote from: Adiepretty on August 25, 2024, 12:05:17 AM

when i would try to search something so that i could know whether someone has already posted it before or when i have a question to ask and i would search it in the search bar, almost all the time nothing would show up. But if something would to show up, nothing would be related to my search only words in my search that i used most would show up. i want to follow the rules of this forum so that this community will have and stay to have quality posters and members. im new here and any help and would be highly appreciated.

I tried to use the forum search bar several times, but each time it returned results (posts) from about 10 years ago, after which I don't even think about using the search.

It would be funny if it weren't sad.

The inoperability of the forum search deprives you of useful information that would be difficult to search manually topic by topic and in posts. It's a pity, because it is an indispensable tool, because of its inoperability the same topics and discussions are duplicated on the forum (although this is promptly removed or moved to the appropriate sections).

It seems to me that in order to get quick answers (within a few minutes), newbies have no choice but to create a new topic with the question they are interested in. This turns out to be more productive and faster than the time spent on the "search" button.

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Quote from: Adiepretty on August 25, 2024, 12:05:17 AM

The forum search button function is one that is really cranky and not easily understood by newbies. Even a couple of ranked users are met with the same complications but, it’s really something you could play around with as it works in a number of ways.

Notably, there are two available search functions. One that utilizes the Google search engine for resources and one that is my localized in the forum. Depending on how you choose, the search button would be engaged. From unpopular responses to this function, a few users prefer utilizing the Google search engine function.

However, the localized search option relies completely on what is been posted on the forum in a some worth ambiguous way. It searches based on familiar words from your search and could generate several results. You could as well, narrow your search results down by applying filters such as, search by boards, by users, by words (senescence) and more of those.

It’s something you should play around with to get results.

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Quote from: Adiepretty on August 25, 2024, 12:05:17 AM

when i would try to search something so that i could know whether someone has already posted it before or when i have a question to ask and i would search it in the search bar, almost all the time nothing would show up. But if something would to show up, nothing would be related to my search only words in my search that i used most would show up. i want to follow the rules of this forum so that this community will have and stay to have quality posters and members. im new here and any help and would be highly appreciated.

If you are going to search for anything in this forum, then it will be a little difficult for you, so for this, you can easily search on Google search engine by adding the word "bitcoin talk" to the end and search in quotation Marks. You will get the exact information, and you can also use Ninjas Space for any other information you can find easily from ninjas. space. I think Using Quotation Marks in Google will extract specific information from the Google search type your information question inside it and close the at the end question and secondly, you can exclude any keyword by + symbol in the paragraph.

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Quote from: Helena Yu on August 25, 2024, 12:17:11 AM

The forum search engine sucks, don't use it again. It's actually working, but the result is terrible especially if you're writing quite long, it might show no results.

It's better for you to use google search or ninjastic.space.

The forum rules is here Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ

It's really crazy when you get to test the search button in the forum and you see the results it just as if the forum is trying even more to add to your confusion and Just like the Op, I thought I was the one who's not actually doing it right but when I got to find out that it's just the system I never used it again. I prefer even using Google search when looking for something and the results are still far better than the forum search engine.

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Quote from: Helena Yu on August 25, 2024, 12:17:11 AM

The forum search engine sucks, don't use it again.

In reality, any site search sucks next to google's, unless google's one is somehow incorporated into the site. But yes, for the OP it is best to use ninjastic.space or google it by adding ‘bitcointalk.org’ to whatever you want to search for.

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Just as Helena Yu said, it is better to use Google search engine or ninjastic.space. I have used the two before and they are very good. But I use Google search engine the most while ninjastic.space for more complex searches and usage.

You need to also know that if you search for anything and you did not see it, you can make a topic about it. You can also include in the topic that you have searched for it but you did not see it.

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The forum search engine sucks, don't use it again. It's actually working, but the result is terrible especially if you're writing quite long, it might show no results.

It's better for you to use google search or ninjastic.space.

The forum rules is here Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ

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when i would try to search something so that i could know whether someone has already posted it before or when i have a question to ask and i would search it in the search bar, almost all the time nothing would show up. But if something would to show up, nothing would be related to my search only words in my search that i used most would show up. i want to follow the rules of this forum so that this community will have and stay to have quality posters and members. im new here and any help and would be highly appreciated.

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