I have a complaint.
It’s not about a member.
It’s not about a post.
It’s not about a topic title.
It’s not about the paucity of PMs.
It’s not about you
but it is for you.
It’s about the search facility. It does not recognise inverted commas. If I ask for a search of “alto flute” I get a result for each post with the word “flute” and each post with the word “alto” and not necessarily with the two together in the one post. That’s not what I want. Inverted commas in a search request usually means all results with the exact order and combination as presented within the inverted commas.
Anyway, I doubt if there is anything you can do about that problem. You may not even want to do anything. It doesn’t matter. I really like your forums. It is great for conversation and learning and general fun all over.
I like being here despite the fact that the search function frustrates me much.
I will write to you again publicly when I have another tolerable complaint.
“alto*flute” didn’t work for me, Guru Sahib. There are umpteen talasiga posts in the flute forum with “alto flute” in them and what you suggested got no result.
No topics or posts met your search criteria
A search without specifyng author only got 2 results. (Authored by Dana). Only 2 is incorrect.
And why should I use Google for to search my posts in this forum?
same result for either:
Search for any terms or use query as entered
Search for all terms
311 matches (threads) for the above.
searching those with author talasiga brought up 10 matches (threads).
While both terms “alto” and “flute” were highlighted individually wherever they occurred, the phrase “Alto Flute” was also sufficiently highlighted for me to find them in the context of examined threads.
What you need to do is think of someone that is likely to use your desired semantic cpmbination and search their posts.
I did it recently with MTG’s post about improving Susato whistles - after an hour or 2, I achieved a kind of Satori about the nature of MTG - this, to me, answered me more than I asked.
Budha can sit in the seach-engine, it is necesary for US to chill and observe his wisdom.
A site that changes as often as C&F will get crawled often and new posts indexed frequently. If you search with Google for the keywords you require (using the quotes) and add “chiffboard” to the search parameters, then you are in with a good chance. If it is one of your own posts you’re looking for then adding “talasiga” as well should narrow the focus.
The true purpose of search engines is to lead us to the “correct” beysian pattern - as Dog Almighty internded.
You would do well to take your keyboard and thrust it into a budgerigar’s cage to learn the hidden cypher! (Hamster would do - so long as he’s big enough to randomly press the keys) - whatever species you use for the task - it helps to have the google entry-page selected or it might take you uneccessary millenia to achieve sartori (google-enhanced!). For myself, I just select the page then strike the keyboard against the quisitive subject - most often my son, sometimes my own head, ocaisionally the open window. Blah. Always works!
I fear for you if you’re having the fantasy that it works. Your own attempt here gets only three results. There are more instances of “alto flute” in these forums than that. As an example, where is theinstance where I am posting about Sarah Allen playing an alto flute at page 2 of this topic?
