Search = Audi
AID = 87006

Displaying documents 1-10 of total 37 found.<ul><li><a href="http://search-test.audiworld.com/index.html?q=audi&amp;u=87006&amp;s=all&amp;db=199 9-01-01&amp;de=2005-05-13">http://search-test.audiworld.com/index.html?q=audi&amp;u=87006&amp;s=all&amp;db=199 9-01-01&amp;de=2005-05-13</a</li></ul>

 

which is what is great about searching by Account ID, and not a name (which can often change).

It looks like between 3/14/05 and 3/15/05, you changed your screen name from:

B S K @ work
to
BSK (German) @ work

 

all the rest seems to work fine for me. i found an old post from someone that i had been looking for since february

 

I notice you said "old post". The beta search only looks at 2005 and only certain forums.

search = audi
aid = 54666

Displaying documents 31-40 of total 49 found.<ul><li><a href="http://search-test.audiworld.com/index.html?q=audi&amp;u=54666&amp;p=1">http://search-test.audiworld.com/index.html?q=audi&amp;u=54666&amp;p=1</a</li></ul>

 

I'll answer those one by one:

1) We do store the list of posts people have made in an easy to access format. I can see the usefulness of using this information as more than just a filter, but it'll be a bit trickier to do. This will have to come later.

2) We plan on making this a Javascript popup in the future, but we may just make it drop downs for now so we can get the search engine up in production ASAP.

3) That is definately a bug looking at the code. We don't index that data correctly. I'll fix it up so it does.

4) Are you looking for a substring match on a URL? That would be trickier. Right now we don't do substring matches because it's very hard to do efficiently. Maybe we could index just the full filename for people to search on? In the future, I want to add a text description to files in the picture poster for people to use and index that data. I think it would be nice to make a Flickr like interface for tags and other searches.

5) I'm glad you noticed that we do phrase searches, but I'll have to double check the code to make sure it handles symbols correctly. '-', '&amp;' and '.' are all handled specially right now atleast (in various ways). I'll see if I can handle those other symbols too, even in phrase searches.

6) I completely agree. The UI needs some work. I'd like to move it to the left, but I don't know if that will work with small resolution screens very well. We will definately come up with a better solution before we go production and are open to continue tweaking it in the future.

7) We'll probably go to a multi-select control in the short term. This will require lots of scrolling, but will work decently well. In the future, I'd like to do something cool with Javascript, but that will require some development and research to figure out the best method.

It doesn't sound like anything is fatal so far. I'm going to take a couple of the necessary indexing suggestions and get those fixed and then start reindexing everything. I can fix some of the other issues on the fly after that.

 

4.) For instance, your pic poster contains this image:
http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/1/100k.jpg
I'd like a way to be able to search to find posts where you (or anyone else) have posted this picture. Doing this covers a few of the items I had suggested... First step, I'd like to be able to search for "100k.jpg" and be able to come up with such a posting. So, immediately I note that this name contains a '.'. As you previously stated, and I've briefly verified, you already deal with '.'. But what you don't do right now is index either the "Optional Image URL" field, nor the filename of an image inserted into the Message body via HTML tags. Once that is working, the next step would be that I might want to further specify the URL, which would include '/', and maybe ':'. Which is to say, I might not want to find everyone's 100k.jpg, but just yours, so I might search for:
"1/100k.jpg"
or
"http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/1/100k.jpg"

Hope that makes sense. My #3 is basically the same request for Link URLs. I separated them to itemize tasks and also due to the difference that I noted the Link URLs were returned if in the Message, where as the Image URLs were not.

Thanks again!

 

ahh.. i only typed in the user id and nothing else. thanks!

 

&lt;label&gt; tags around the descriptions of radios and checkboxes are really nice for several reasons:

* They associate the description with the action for accessibility purposes. i.e. text only browsing and screen readers.

* Using labels allows you to click on the text to toggle the selection. This is like the behavior of these types of inputs in most modern OSs.

Thanks!<ul><li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.9">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#h-17.9</a></li></ul>

 

as it compares to the old search if I could search the allroad forum.

 

You may want to specify the order of the date format, especially for us stupid americans. :^)