Lord Valarian Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 The search function is buggy. Many times I can find a mod on tes nexus using google, but not find that same mod using nexus search. Example: "OBGE core" on tes nexus: no results"OBGE core" "tes nexus" on google: found Can someone look into it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverCobra126 Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 From my experience using the site's search function for mods, it seems to work based on matching the words you're searching for against the names of the mods in the database. So for instance, if you search for the word 'Graphic', it would bring back a list of mods which have the word 'Graphic' in their name. This would explain why your example doesn't give you a result on the Nexus, as where OBGE's core files are under the name 'Oblivion Graphics Extender' in the database, using OBGE for your search word would not bring it back as one of your results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Google can find words that are close to what you are looking for, or that mean the same thing, or are misspelled, or even make a pretty good guess as to what you really want. But that is what Google does - search. Unlike Google, Nexus doesn't have a full time staff of programmers trying to find the best way to find what you are searching for using secret algorithms. We are stuck with whatever the search software implementation that came with the original forum used. With a few custom changes by Dark0ne. :thumbsup: However, The Nexus does do better at providing FREE mods than Google. Again, that is not Google's focus either. TL:DRGoogle = searchNexus = mods :tongue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Valarian Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 -Opensuse- forums has a great search engine, uses php i think.. You might want to into it. Does your search it make use of tags? It's misleading to say 'search'. It should be 'title search'. Thanks for the info. I'll just google instead. PS, I'v done many college courses, including advanced datastructures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thandal Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 -Opensuse- forums has a great search engine, uses php i think.. You might want to into it. Does your search it make use of tags? It's misleading to say 'search'. It should be 'title search'. Thanks for the info. I'll just google instead. PS, I'v done many college courses, including advanced datastructures.So, having done "many courses", you know to read the documentation for a complicated system. Yet your statement indicates that you haven't used the "Advanced Search" function here, or you would know that "title search" is simply the default:http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/imageshare/images/1678793-1324607284.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Valarian Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 (edited) Thanks! I couldn't find it. I was looking next to the search button. It should be there. End topic. :) Edited February 29, 2012 by Lord Valarian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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