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Development => Bugs, Feature Requests, and Feedback => Topic started by: y00tz on April 22, 2008, 03:55:36 PM

Title: Feature Request: Change 'banner' to search box
Post by: y00tz on April 22, 2008, 03:55:36 PM
Heh, the irony here is overwhelming, but I think you should change the "Google AdSense Sucks" banner area to a small Google search box that searches dplogin.com(/forums/).

-People might be inclined to search first if they see a search box on the forums main page
-SMF search is notoriously slow and awful (no boolean, etc.)
-Google allows you to add search modules that default to search just dplogin.com
Title: Re: Feature Request: Change 'banner' to search box
Post by: ViciouZ on April 22, 2008, 04:25:31 PM
Or link it to the existing search feature and change the text to Need help with the game? Click here and enter your problem.
Title: Re: Feature Request: Change 'banner' to search box
Post by: jitspoe on April 22, 2008, 04:29:48 PM
Wonder if any other search engines offer that functionality...
Title: Re: Feature Request: Change 'banner' to search box
Post by: y00tz on April 22, 2008, 04:31:07 PM
That still doesn't help with the slow and generally sucky default search, I think adding a search box is the best solution.


edit:  haha, I don't blame you for being a bit anti-Google, anyway: http://search.yahoo.com/info/ysearchbox_instructions.html
Title: Re: Feature Request: Change 'banner' to search box
Post by: jitspoe on April 22, 2008, 06:28:12 PM
Wonder if AltaVista has web-specific searches.  That used to be the best search engine back in the day - had image, music, and video search along with translation long before Google.  It also let you search for an exact phrase, including punctuation, which was really handy for C code problems, but then it switched over to more of the "here's what you probably meant" Google mentality along with every other search engine, so there was really no point in going to it anymore.  Still not a bad engine, though, I don't think.  Just forgotten.
Title: Re: Feature Request: Change 'banner' to search box
Post by: T3RR0R15T on April 23, 2008, 09:58:40 AM
- google
Title: Re: Feature Request: Change 'banner' to search box
Post by: sk89q on April 23, 2008, 03:52:30 PM
Google SiteSearch, and any site search, is crappy. =|

Running your own search engine > using Google any day, in terms of relevance.
Title: Re: Feature Request: Change 'banner' to search box
Post by: i_am_a_pirate on May 02, 2008, 12:33:58 PM
Use the same peice of code in the existing search page and dump it instead of the banner?
Or is it not as simple?
Title: Re: Feature Request: Change 'banner' to search box
Post by: y00tz on May 02, 2008, 01:08:03 PM
Quote from: i_am_a_pirate on May 02, 2008, 12:33:58 PM
Use the same peice of code in the existing search page and dump it instead of the banner?
Or is it not as simple?

Except the search on the search page sucks.
Title: Re: Feature Request: Change 'banner' to search box
Post by: i_am_a_pirate on May 03, 2008, 11:35:54 AM
Quote from: y00tz on May 02, 2008, 01:08:03 PM
Except the search on the search page sucks.
I use it a lot..... isn't that what we're meant to do? The amount of mapping help that little box gives me. ooh, makes me all tingly inside