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New and Improved Search Module

by WallStreetOasis.com (Senior Gorilla, 777 Banana Points Points) on 7/28/08 at 11:32am
New and Improved Search Module

As you might have noticed, we have launched a new and improved search module with Google's technology.

Now you should be able to find a lot of the rich content on WSO in the archives MUCH easier. In addition, you can now search with two or three letters no problem (ie "MS" or "GS", "tmt", etc) and still get results.

Many, many, many other improvements are on there way in the coming weeks. Please stay tuned.

In other news, we are now over 15,000 registered members strong. While we are a little behind my goal to reach 20k registered members by the end of 2008 I know it's still possible so any help on that front recruiting your friends and colleagues would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Patrick

MMBinNC's picture

THank you the new search is

by MMBinNC (Orangutan, 295 Banana Points Points) on 7/28/08 at 2:01pm

THank you the new search is MUCH better
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Underground's picture

Yup, good work!

by Underground (Senior Chimp, 22 Banana Points Points) on 7/28/08 at 2:33pm

Yup, good work!

captk's picture

Patrick, You may want to

by captk Certified User(Orangutan, 374 Banana Points Points) on 7/28/08 at 9:14pm

Patrick,

You may want to exclude from search results any URLs that have /user/ in them (ie. profile pages). Most of my searches are turning up the "track" pages for users that have posted in threads of interest, rather than the threads themselves.

Also, there is not much (any) content on those user pages that someone would actually be searching for - people are searching for threads.

- Capt K

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Very nice improvement but I

by Lucaskhan (Senior Monkey, 98 Banana Points Points) on 7/28/08 at 10:23pm

Very nice improvement but I did notice one thing:

When you do a search the word becomes "serach" at the top

WallStreetOasis.com's picture

thanks

by WallStreetOasis.com Certified User(Senior Gorilla, 777 Banana Points Points) on 7/30/08 at 12:39am
captk wrote:

Patrick,

You may want to exclude from search results any URLs that have /user/ in them (ie. profile pages). Most of my searches are turning up the "track" pages for users that have posted in threads of interest, rather than the threads themselves.

Also, there is not much (any) content on those user pages that someone would actually be searching for - people are searching for threads.

- Capt K

Thanks for the heads up - this is now fixed...