c_maguire

Wanting to find some information on replacing the fuel pressure regulator on my car I started a search. In the keyword(s) window I put < MY00 fuel pressure regulator > .

And...............

What I ended up with was any thread containing the word "fuel" OR "pressure" OR "regulator" OR "MY00" OR any combination of the preceding.

I remember this feature being somewhat more useful previously.
Or is my memory playing tricks on me?

Kevin

bigarf

iTrader: (67)

i have found the same with the search.it used to be quite helpfull but doesn't seem to be much good for anything now.

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

You need to quote your search words.

Search for "fuel" "regulator"

or perhaps "fuel regulator"

Include the quotes around each word or phrase.

gpssti4

iTrader: (6)

Nope, it's still crap.

I've looked for:
"fitting a newage steering wheel into a classic"
"fitting a newage steering wheel classic"
"fitting newage steering wheel classic"
"newage steering wheel classic"

and the search results are a big fat zero. Come on guys sort this out please.

BlueBugEye

iTrader: (12)

Teaching mode on!

Search engines (including Google) will always search using the logical term Or between words, e.g a search for Subaru Impreza will return all documents containing the words Subaru or Impreza the search engine will then display the results in order of relevance, e.g those containing both words at the top.

If you use speech marks " around words you limit the results e.g. "Subaru Impreza" will return all documents containing the word Subaru followed by the word Impreza.

I am assuming the Scoobynet search works in this manner.

Further to this you should be able to use the - symbol to set a word you do not want to be in the results.

scooby1doo1

iTrader: (7)

I found google to be fare better then sn for any search.

marcie

haha, i have been searching for info. on fuel pressure regulator fitting with same problem and turned this thread up.

Aaron1978

iTrader: (12)

so unless you know this, its pretty much no good to you what a handy search function we have, which might i add used to be great for finding old threads/info.

dlynch

It used to be good - it's now useless in my opinion. Probably due to bandwidth costs.

webby v7 slipperwagon

iTrader: (2)

The whole scnet has gone a bit pants, hopefully they will sort it out. Seems to me that they are changing to much to quickly. I know its a buisness, but jeez all the adverts for dating crap etc....

Torquemada

Isn't it just standard boolean search Can't see how it has changed that much?

If you don't know about boolean searches I think there's info here
Boolean logic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Torquemada

Oh, and I believe that most internet search engines are based on or very close to the logic described by BlueBugEye. Google definitely works under the same logic.

sy.

iTrader: (8)

100% agree here sn gone a bit the search archive was great here on sn now its useless and most of it sadly removed

jayallen

iTrader: (31)

I guess that all threads posted prior to the software change are no more.? When ever i try a search it only brings up posts from 2009.

Torquemada

They may have limited how far back the database searches but I think it's more of a limit on the search results returned as there's a lot of info to sift through.

Did a search on "JAE 2008" and came back with this https://www.scoobynet.com/track-days...92745-jae.html so not restricted to 2009

Sounds like there may be a fair bit of user error/ignorance going on but I do agree that it's slow as cats **** on here and a bit of a pain to the end users in general.

beef-on-the-bone

iTrader: (5)

i'm not too keen on it, never seem to find anything specific to what i'm looking for.......

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

Guys - Please read the sticky at the top of the forum which explains how to use the search function in its current form. Thanks.

https://www.scoobynet.com/scoobynet-...fectively.html