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Old Mar 17, 2009 | 10:40 AM
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I tried STFA, and it doesn't work. I'm trying to find out if anyone has a problem with the temp in the climate control being inaccurate. So, I search for: climate control inaccurate and "climate control" inaccurate. Either way, I get posts with "climate" and none of the other words. There is no option to search for all keywords. So, the search is useless.
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Old Mar 17, 2009 | 10:45 AM
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Try entering the following (without the quotation marks)
"inaccurate climate control", return results by relevancy.

Hope that assist, I got some good results when I tried it.
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Old Mar 17, 2009 | 10:52 AM
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Thanks, but that isn't intuitive to me. The reason it produces more relevant results is that "inaccurate" appears in less posts.
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Old Mar 17, 2009 | 10:59 AM
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Adrian,
I tried as you suggested. Without quotes, none of the results are related to climate control issues. I tried with quotes and got only one (and it wasn't the one I posted with the question... which had all those words). The one result had those words in it (and highlighted), but it's an irrelevent thread. I don't believe that in the history of AW, I'm the only one to create a post with "inaccurate climate control" in the text.
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Old Mar 17, 2009 | 11:05 AM
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Originally Posted by MNSteve
Adrian,
I tried as you suggested. Without quotes, none of the results are related to climate control issues.
Really?
I searched, and sorted results by relevancy, here are the top 5 threads I got:
https://www.audiworld.com/forums/sho...limate+control
https://www.audiworld.com/forums/sho...limate+control
https://www.audiworld.com/forums/sho...limate+control
https://www.audiworld.com/forums/sho...limate+control
https://www.audiworld.com/forums/sho...limate+control
On the first page of results, I would say that 80% of the results appear to be very closely related to having inaccurate climate control.
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Old Mar 17, 2009 | 11:49 AM
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Thanks. The relevancy should be the default. Don't we logically search by relevancy?

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Old Mar 17, 2009 | 12:00 PM
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In our experience, people typically prefer to search by post date. (i.e. they want more recent threads)
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Old Mar 17, 2009 | 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by IB Adrian
In our experience, people typically prefer to search by post date. (i.e. they want more recent threads)
In your experience.

Maybe if you'd polled the AudiWorld users out there prior to implementing "your experience", this would have been such a cluster. You guys have effectively killed this community that is has been for the last 10 years.
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Old Mar 17, 2009 | 12:37 PM
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So you are suggesting that I'd rather see irrelevant results, as long as they are recent? What kind of logic is that?
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