Seriously, I searched for 'Starcraft Brood War' and found nothing, I had to search for 'Brood War' to find it. It's the same thing with the TV.com search engine. You should really remake the entire search system.
That's why there is the tag search ;) but the "related" results in the top should work more ask people use it_Sam_
...What?
Yeah, the search function is definitely horrible. Searching "The Movies" yields hundreds of result with the actual game being in the 2nd page. Searching for "Game X 3" may get you "Game X 1" and "Game X 2" before the actual sequel you wanted.
Just goes to show that searches are based off of popularity and not off of accuracy.
Solution for exact multi-word title searches: use quotation marks. Examples: "the bigs" "final fantasy i" "bard's tale 2"
I just found out about this myself and it works much better for all the exact multi-word searches I tried. We'll add a bit of help text to the page to spell it out.
Let us know if this doesn't result in the exact searches you'd expect.
Solution for exact multi-word title searches: use quotation marks. Examples: "the bigs" "final fantasy i" "bard's tale 2"
I just found out about this myself and it works much better for all the exact multi-word searches I tried. We'll add a bit of help text to the page to spell it out.
Let us know if this doesn't result in the exact searches you'd expect.
Solution for exact multi-word title searches: use quotation marks. Examples: "the bigs" "final fantasy i" "bard's tale 2"
I just found out about this myself and it works much better for all the exact multi-word searches I tried. We'll add a bit of help text to the page to spell it out.
Let us know if this doesn't result in the exact searches you'd expect.
SamP
With all due respect, users don't have to work for another person's site to work. Why would "the movies" (without quotation marks) only come out in the 2nd page? Just base it off of accuracy first, popularity second. Otherwise it is, quite frankly, dumb.
I tried it with quotations but when you search something like "Paper Mario" it comes up with Super Paper Mario first. This might just be me, but the first on the list should always be the one that fits the EXACT text of what you searched for and then have sequels and other related stuff afterwards. But it really only matters if it's something like what the TC said where the game is on the next page or even furthur.
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