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02-03-2005 09:28 PM
xcom freak	Yeah that is exactly what i suggested k: I think it is a better way to search for games .Definitly.
02-03-2005 03:59 PM
marko river	Both of them perhaps What about this, if you type several letters, engine searchs through all words in the games' names and see if any word starts with those letters? In that way you don't get all games that have "b" in their name if someone types "b", but will get the games that starts with "b" or have a word that starts with "b". You type "h" and you get Space Hulk among others. Could be cool, because someone remembers that he played "Hulk" or something and just types "h" or "hul" and finds it. Maybe he forgot that name started with Space. Maybe i didn't exlain properly my idea, but i think it is bette then HOTU's engine. I searched lots of games on HOTU and engine didn't find them, so i had to check all games in the genre to see is it ithere just because i couldn't remember the name exactly. Maybe it is no big deal now, but i guess we will grow very big in the future, so this could be extremly useful.
25-02-2005 10:24 PM
Kosta	Well, its true, I did change the method of searching, and its like the one on HoTU now.... I did it because the last search engine was also flawed. For example, if someone wrote "island brain" as a query, no results would be displayed.... I don't know which one is better
25-02-2005 05:05 PM
Dino	I think that those who know something about search engine code should prepare themselves for some work!
25-02-2005 05:01 PM
Sebatianos	That had to change... I remeber that when I put in Rail - it showed two games (Railroad Tycoon and 1830 Railroad...). But now you must type the whole word. This can be a problem if somebody knows only a part of the title.
25-02-2005 04:55 PM
Dino	Good point, guys! I also had that in mind, some of the visitors may find themselves disappointed when they get no result and have typed only part of the word! They automaticly preassume that their favourite game isn't available on this site...
25-02-2005 04:33 PM
marko river	I was thinking something like that too. Say, Kosta, was search engine changed?? I rememberd that typing just two or three letters brings all games containig this, and now i have to type whole word, just like on the HotU. Something like first letter would be real cool. This was mentioned before, and i agree that new section with letters would complicate too much, but if search engine is set to work like this, it is so so cool. Or perhaps options in searc, like you can set search to "starts with", "contains" and so....
25-02-2005 04:18 PM
xcom freak	Just a suggestion: it will be good to change the search engine for it to be like : if u type K for example u get all the games starting with K it would be easier for everybody for example in this site King's quest is written kings quest if someone is looking for it he ll write king or king's and wont find it while with the other type of search engine if he writes king hell find it.
25-02-2005 04:14 PM
Data	try adding %LAST% or for kosta try adding % % around the query
25-02-2005 04:04 PM
Kosta	I think "LAST" is a filtered word, not sure... I'll look into it
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