| OK, so this is basically a beta test, but have some fun with it anyway. I've put the new search live. It has a ton of new functionality, not the least of which is that the indexes are actually up to date! A) Don't use the search boxes at the top... they don't quite work right. Instead go to Pages->Search and then everything will work. B) The indexes do not update automatically when new posts are added. For the time being I have to trigger that, and will do so every day or so. The upside is that the update takes about 10 seconds to execute so no more waiting 28 hours for indexes to rebuild :) C) The help function is incorrect and is the help for the old system. If you are a search geek and want to see how this works and what you can do with it, go here: [ http://support.dtsearch.com/faq/search.html ] and look at the right side of the page. Most of that is relevant for this search. D) You can now search ACROSS forums, and even search user profiles. This will later be extended to search tech pages, etc. from one spot! It's controlled from the dropdown. E) I thought it would be cool to show the last 10 searches that have been made on the site, so you see that as well. Of course, it took about 10ms for somebody to see that you could make a great game out of that, but we'll see how it plays out. F) You can control the search algorithms from the 'advanced' pop up. Feel free to play around with that and see how things work. G) Searching for single words is a really bad idea, i.e. if you search for 'turbo' that probably matches over a million posts so waiting for that result set to come back would take a few lifetimes. If your search times out its most likely because you are too general in the query and its matching way too much stuff. Even putting in an additional word will speed the query up greatly. While this is a great improvement, it's still a single server with a single set of hard drives, not Google, so try to be a little intelligent about what you search for. H) If you have issues, email me at greg@twinturbo.net. I may not respond but I will read them and deal with the issues as I can.
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