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[Bruce M.]

In my humble opinion there is one thing missing in Guide to Forum features ** READ ** (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=726219) that should be there:

The Ubuntu Google Search Engine (http://crunchbang.org/ubuntu-search-engine/)

Again, just my opinion.
Bruce

[LaRoza]

In my humble opinion there is one thing missing in Guide to Forum features ** READ ** (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=726219) that should be there:

The Ubuntu Google Search Engine (http://crunchbang.org/ubuntu-search-engine/)

Again, just my opinion.
Bruce
Never knew about that, very cool.

[popch]

The Ubuntu Google Search Engine (http://crunchbang.org/ubuntu-search-engine/)

Have you found that engine to be useful? I just ran it through a simple test and had it search for 'tissue'. It failed to find several posts I definitely know to be here in ubuntuforums.

[LaRoza]

Have you found that engine to be useful? I just ran it through a simple test and had it search for 'tissue'. It failed to find several posts I definitely know to be here in ubuntuforums.

I just used "site:ubuntuforums.org tissue" and didn't get the referenced posts.

I did use "what does my avatar look like" on that engine because I often use that in google (with the above syntax) and I got the same results as usual.

I use the above search term a lot to find a certain thread which for some reason I never book marked.

[popch]

When I go to www.google.com (http://www.google.com), I get redirected to www.google.ch (http://www.google.ch), where your search string yields 428 hits. Of those I am looking for I find the first one on page two in a thread called Coming from Widows (sic).

The Ubuntu Google Search Engine yields 14 hits for 'tissue'. Some of those hits are on ubuntuforums.org.

I have no explanation. Perhaps my search argument is not the optimal use case, anyway.

[LaRoza]

When I go to www.google.com (http://www.google.com), I get redirected to www.google.ch (http://www.google.ch), where your search string yields 428 hits. Of those I am looking for I find the first one on page two in a thread called Coming from Widows (sic).

The Ubuntu Google Search Engine yields 14 hits for 'tissue'. Some of those hits are on ubuntuforums.org.

I have no explanation. Perhaps my search argument is not the optimal use case, anyway.

I went to that version, and tried to find the thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=515751) with the same terms, and I got it.

Perhaps we need to find a real world example for searching.

[LaRoza]

Perhaps we need to find a real world example for searching.

Just did it. I got the expected and useful results for two questions that would likely be used.

One was for running Ubuntu on a G3, and the other for a resolution problem (I used vague descriptions and not my normal way of searching to emulate the typical user). I got useful hits up top.

[popch]

I just have tried to find the term 'tc1100' both with google.ch and the Ubuntu Google Search Engine.

Google again finds something like 480 hits and the other engine a bit more than twenty. When I 'refine' results to 'forum', I get many more hits, which I find a bit counterintuitive, not easily explainable but certainly useful.

Not that my opinion is needed here, but I think Bruce's discovery might be useful here.

[Bruce M.]

Have you found that engine to be useful? I just ran it through a simple test and had it search for 'tissue'. It failed to find several posts I definitely know to be here in ubuntuforums.

Yes, I find it very useful.

To date I like it better than just plain Google for Ubuntu stuff.

[Bruce M.]

Never knew about that, very cool.

Yea, I like it a lot.

Someone told me about it in a post a while back, been using it ever since.

[Bruce M.]

I just checked: tissue - 23 hits --- no popch

Checked tissue+popch - BINGO!

I win!

[popch]

I win!

You win. Me Linux. :lolflag:

[Bruce M.]

Try it for stuff like this: please how do i run SAP on ubuntu gusty (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=730309)

Search for: run SAP in ubuntu = 38 hits.

[Bruce M.]

You win. Me Linux. :lolflag:

Here, have a tissue! :guitar: :)

[pmasiar]

I have no explanation.

I don't know in deep details how exactly (Edit: google's proprietary) search works (and if I knew and said, i could get into trouble :-) ), but IIRC Google has multiple data centers around the world, maybe those centers store different parts of web pages (from different servers, indexed at different intervals), so giving different results.

[LaRoza]

I don't know in deep details how exactly search works (and if I knew and said, i could get into trouble :-) ), but IIRC Google has multiple data centers around the world, maybe those centers store different parts of web pages (from different servers, indexed at different intervals), so giving different results.

On this forum, the default seach (click search, enter terms, press enter) searches the the thread content on the entire forum that the user is allowed to search.

In advanced search, you can set it to search titles, time frames, users and certain forums. The feature where you get search results after entering a new thread title searches thread titles I believe.

[pmasiar]

In my above comment, I wanted to change "search" to "google's proprietary search", because IIUC we were talking about different results using google ubuntu search engine?

[Bruce M.]

OH NO!

LaRosa the Borg!