Why doesn't search work

russk2txb · Joined: 30 Mar 2008 Posts: 109 Location: New Jersey

I just spent a frustrating hour trying to find some info in this forum. I tried multiple ways to search for information on the command line compiler, but no matter what I do I always get many hundreds or even thousands of hits that have nothing to do with my search. I tried:

command line - lots of hits that do not have the word line.

"Command line compiler" (with quotes), I guess it does not recognize the meaning of quotes

Command AND line AND compiler - makes no difference. Is it just plain broke or am I stupid?

Thanks, Russ

temtronic · Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 5:48 pm

I just tried command line compiler, selected ALL words and got 474 hits.
So to narrow your search I'd add some additional keywords.

Jay

russk2txb · Joined: 30 Mar 2008 Posts: 109 Location: New Jersey

Yes, that's what I got too, but most of those hits had nothing to do with the subject. In fact I only found 3 or 4 before I finally gave up because no more were being seen. I think it searches for each word and reports all hits for each, even though I told it to only use results that have all the words in them.

I've fought with this search engine before but this time I thought maybe someone had some better way. The thing is that I don't like posting questions that may have already been answered. Oh well...

jeremiah · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 1355

Have you tried using google to search the forums:

site:www.ccsinfo.com/forum command line

Don't know if it is any better, but just a different route to try.

Ttelmah · Joined: 11 Mar 2010 Posts: 19545

Actually:

site:www.ccsinfo.com/forum "command line"

Otherwise it'll find threads with just 'command', and 'line'.

Using the inverted commas forces it to only find threads with the two words together.

Better though (since the above will find all sorts of threads talking about other things about ccsc, is to look for the command line compiler name.

jeremiah · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 1355

That's fine too. I generally only put quotes on google searches as needed. Most of the time it is generally smart enough to group them together for me. As an example, doing the search I posted on my computer in Firefox, all of the results came back with both words grouped together, so I didn't need the quotes. If I saw results where it was all over the place, I would put quotes around them.

Either way, the nice thing about google searching is it has a lot of really nice searching options.

Ttelmah · Joined: 11 Mar 2010 Posts: 19545

It puts the ones with both words first. However there are rather a lot in total. That's why actually looking for 'ccsc.exe', and then 'command line' is rather better. Far fewer hits, and the ones you get are more likely to be what is wanted.
Agree wholeheartedly about the options. The actual abilities are really useful. Smile