New paizo.com Search Engine!


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Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer

Gary has ripped out our old search engine and replaced it with a faster and much more capable one. We'll be fine-tuning it and adding more features as time goes by, but you can give it a spin now!


NICE!


wowza! supreme congratulations and thanks, gary!


Ooooh! Finally a tool to browse the best flame wars of the past 5 years. Brilliant work!

Paizo Employee Director of Sales

All you have to do is enter "sebastian" into the search box.

Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer

Hint: try searching for things like DWARF MINIATURES.

Dark Archive Bella Sara Charter Superscriber

Cosmo wrote:
All you have to do is enter "sebastian" into the search box.

Exactly!

Dark Archive Bella Sara Charter Superscriber

Vic Wertz wrote:
Hint: try searching for things like DWARF MINIATURES.

Pffft. I think my policy on mis-using the technological tools you give us here on Paizo is well-established.

Now to do some necro-ing...

Sczarni

Vic Wertz wrote:
Hint: try searching for things like DWARF MINIATURES.

WOW! that's lots of options!

Paizo Employee CEO

I typed in "Richard Pett." That guy is scary prolific!

-Lisa

Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer

Lisa Stevens wrote:
I typed in "Richard Pett."

I hope you made your Sanity Check...


Vic Wertz wrote:
Hint: try searching for things like DWARF MINIATURES.

yeah, this is seriously useful.

you guys need a blog post explaining about this, or even one of the 3 'panels' on the front page.

again, thanks to gary!


I'm so happy I'm delirious. Finally we have a good search feature again. The trick of using Google had a lot of problems while this search engine seems, at first blush, to be quite good. I was able to nearly instantly locate a post I wrote in March of 2007 about using Dragons optimally, something I'd not been able to locate since mid 2008.

Liberty's Edge

Vic Wertz wrote:
Hint: try searching for things like DWARF MINIATURES.

Holy gods!

That is super-smexy!

Methinks Gary needs a raise.

Sovereign Court

Hooray!


Wow...I searched for "hogarth grapple hezrou" and it referred me to exactly the archived post I was looking for, and nothing else!

Kudos!

Sovereign Court

Awesome! I just used the new Search for the first time(almost a month after the update), typed in what I thought would be a mostly useless string and got exactly what I was looking for.

Great work!

RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32

It is now possible to search the PRD via the site search engine.


Idea the Ignore List/Poster Filtering prompted:
Have a Search: Within this Thread option [within the current page's thread], which can search for poster(s), topics, etc. Might have to grey it out for non-forum pages like the front page, etc...


It'd also be cool if there was a search box WITHIN the prd section itself...

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

Quandary wrote:
It'd also be cool if there was a search box WITHIN the prd section itself...

That's coming soon, perhaps as early as next week.

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

Quandary wrote:

Idea the Ignore List/Poster Filtering prompted:

Have a Search: Within this Thread option [within the current page's thread], which can search for poster(s), topics, etc. Might have to grey it out for non-forum pages like the front page, etc...

This is actually already on the todo list... I was waiting for someone to request it before assigning it a priority. I know some forums have long threads on a specific topic where you might want to search for a particular subject you know has been covered somewhere in there (e.g., "latest firmware update"), but I wasn't sure it'd be as useful for our messageboards. (Does anybody really need to search the FAWTL threads? :-)


Gary Teter wrote:
(Does anybody really need to search the FAWTL threads? :-)

You'd be surprised, he he


I have no idea what FAWTL is supposed to mean, but I *know* Search: Within Thread would be very useful for the loooong threads that tend to develop here, to be able to go find one of my OWN posts that directly addresses a recent poster's question, just as one example... Or to look for the James/ Jason post that I *know* I saw somewhere... etc...

This brings up that distinguishing between filtering for a poster within thread and filtering for content within thread could be useful, otherwise a person's name would also bring up messages QUOTING that person's name...

Anyhow, thanks for the good job getting this going!


Quandary wrote:
I have no idea what FAWTL is supposed to mean...

I think it stands for "Forums Are Way Too Long", although what that means and where it came from, I have no idea. Maybe I can find out using the Search feature.


Obvious Troll Is Obvious wrote:
Quandary wrote:
I have no idea what FAWTL is supposed to mean...
I think it stands for "Forums Are Way Too Long", although what that means and where it came from, I have no idea. Maybe I can find out using the Search feature.

you mean this huge rambling off topic thread

the original FAWTL

RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32

Gary Teter wrote:
Quandary wrote:
It'd also be cool if there was a search box WITHIN the prd section itself...
That's coming soon, perhaps as early as next week.

This exists now.

Paizo Employee Director of Game Development

Right on!


Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber

Awesome.


More power to Paizo!

Way to go Gary!

(Now if we could just get back the polling function on the messageboards...)

Liberty's Edge

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

I so like. :)

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