Useless search engines

[The Real MC]

Some websites have search engines that are just plain useless. Like SoundOnSound. It searches the SOS forums, and returns EVERY post with the keyword in the thread title, even if the post doesn't contain the keyword! I get so tired of scrolling past so many of them that I just give up.

 

Google and Duckduckgo are much better - site:soundonsound.com is your friend.

[16251]

Some websites have search engines that are just plain useless.

 

Like Keyboard Corner*.

 

*Probably my stupidity when trying to use KC search engine.

[KuruPrionz]

Recently switched to Duck Duck Go.

Was a bit tricky in Firefox until I googled it (lol).

Firefox has it installed already and won't allow you to activate anything except the version they supply.

It's super easy once you get that.

 

Most forums have abysmal search engines.

 

I use my primary search engine, enter the question that I have and add the word "forum".

This usually yeilds interesting information.

[EscapeRocks]

Some websites have search engines that are just plain useless.

 

Like Keyboard Corner*.

 

*Probably my stupidity when trying to use KC search engine.

 

Not you. It is well known and documented that the search engine here is like a KC-300 keyboard amp.

 

 

[Joe Muscara]

The MPF search engine is better than it was before the update, though.

[EscapeRocks]

The MPF search engine is better than it was before the update, though.

 

 

I've been so conditioned over the past 16 years I've never used Guess I'll try. I better not fall down some internet black hole

 

[stoken6]

I've found that the built-in UBB search is now usable. For some reason Google isn't finding hits for me - .robots preventing indexing?

 

Cheers, Mike.

[CowboyNQ]

I have always struggled with the KC search engine too - I find the Google system that Sven Golly shared in the sticky "searching for info on this forum" works very well.

 

Confess I've not tried to use the KC engine since the update. I share David's fears of altering space/time irrevocably and watching the universe collapse in on itself.

[AnotherScott]

Changing the search engine here from 2 years to 3 years helped, though pianoworld (same basic software) is better with 4 years. Really, my biggest complaint about it is that you can't have it show threads instead of posts, which means if 50 posts in a single thread meet your criteria, that's 50 hits instead of 1 (and of course, you've still got the limit of 100 hits total).

 

Using google isn't always a good answer. If you're searching for posts about a particular piece/combination of gear, google will give you hits if someone just listed the item in their sig, which the local search properly does not. And google's advanced options page is long gone, making it difficult (if not impossible?) to do some boolean searches. There seems to be no clear pattern as to whether adding another search term will increase or decrease your number of hits.