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Title: Is there a way to improve the search engine?
Post by: jcalder8 on February 04, 2012, 08:14:54 am

I was trying to search for Mickey's Speedway USA for the GBC. I tried just typing in mickey speedway but I got zero results. I had to use the " 's " in order for it to find the game I was looking for. Is there a way to allow it to search for partial terms rather than having to be exact?

Title: Re: Is there a way to improve the search engine?
Post by: forte on February 04, 2012, 09:44:02 am

Not a similar issue, but an issue nonetheless. I hate how the auto complete works. Sometimes I'm trying to search  a generic term, like "Mario", and if I don't hit enter fast enough it selects the first auto complete result. Might be a Firefox issue, but it certainly annoys me.

Title: Re: Is there a way to improve the search engine?
Post by: scott on February 04, 2012, 09:46:20 am

Apostrophes mess up the search as well. Like if you search for Mickey's the auto correct doesn't pick up on anything prior to the '

Title: Re: Is there a way to improve the search engine?
Post by: foxhack on February 04, 2012, 01:15:44 pm

Not a similar issue, but an issue nonetheless. I hate how the auto complete works. Sometimes I'm trying to search  a generic term, like "Mario", and if I don't hit enter fast enough it selects the first auto complete result. Might be a Firefox issue, but it certainly annoys me.

I use Firefox and I've never had this happen. :(

Title: Re: Is there a way to improve the search engine?
Post by: darko on February 04, 2012, 01:29:59 pm

Not a similar issue, but an issue nonetheless. I hate how the auto complete works. Sometimes I'm trying to search  a generic term, like "Mario", and if I don't hit enter fast enough it selects the first auto complete result. Might be a Firefox issue, but it certainly annoys me.

I use Firefox and I've never had this happen. :(

It happens to me all the time. I use Chrome so it's not a Firefox specific issue.

Title: Re: Is there a way to improve the search engine?
Post by: tpugmire on February 04, 2012, 02:23:25 pm

I just browse the section, rather than use the search.  So I guess I've never noticed...

Title: Re: Is there a way to improve the search engine?
Post by: matt on February 04, 2012, 06:19:53 pm

Not a similar issue, but an issue nonetheless. I hate how the auto complete works. Sometimes I'm trying to search  a generic term, like "Mario", and if I don't hit enter fast enough it selects the first auto complete result. Might be a Firefox issue, but it certainly annoys me.

I use Firefox and I've never had this happen. :(

It happens to me all the time. I use Chrome so it's not a Firefox specific issue.

ive never had this issue in chrome or ff. Hmmm

Title: Re: Is there a way to improve the search engine?
Post by: jcalder8 on February 04, 2012, 06:50:52 pm

Not a similar issue, but an issue nonetheless. I hate how the auto complete works. Sometimes I'm trying to search  a generic term, like "Mario", and if I don't hit enter fast enough it selects the first auto complete result. Might be a Firefox issue, but it certainly annoys me.

I use Firefox and I've never had this happen. :(

It happens to me all the time. I use Chrome so it's not a Firefox specific issue.

ive never had this issue in chrome or ff. Hmmm

I have had this happen in FF too.

Title: Re: Is there a way to improve the search engine?
Post by: jcalder8 on February 07, 2012, 08:56:12 pm

Just saying thanks for improving it. I have noticed that it will now recognize ":" and allow you to keep searching.

Title: Re: Is there a way to improve the search engine?
Post by: matt on February 07, 2012, 09:25:35 pm

I'm in the process of changing the encoding type of the data and all the pages so it may be wonky for a few days while I push out the updates. I'll also be attempting to address the issues everyone pointed out above later this week.