How does the site search sort?

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  • meme 9 Mar 2012 16:55:50 15,810 posts
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    Alliteration, mmmm.

    Anyway. How the fuck does the site search sort its results? It's really been puzzingly me, as I keep forgetting how fucking awful it is (sorry, but it really is, even compared to the old forum) and using it instead of Dirtbox's google search. It ain't by relevance, it ain't by date, it ain't by most recently active thread. If I search for 'google', the first result is some three year thread about videogame release calendars, the second is an xbox softmod thread from three months ago, etc etc. A result for the Google Chrome thread appears somewhere around result 10, the first time Google is even mentioned. What the arse is it doing?

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  • Khanivor 9 Mar 2012 16:57:10 38,878 posts
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    Random number generator.
  • Dirtbox 9 Mar 2012 17:01:48 74,005 posts
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    There's probably already an identical thread to this , but fucked if anyone is ever going to find it.

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  • Fab4 9 Mar 2012 17:17:36 5,329 posts
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    Its a complex algorithm centered around the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
  • nickthegun 9 Mar 2012 17:25:06 45,309 posts
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    Dirtbox wrote:
    There's probably already an identical thread to this , but fucked if anyone is ever going to find it.
    :D

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  • Jeepers 9 Mar 2012 17:29:31 12,609 posts
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    It's a Serendipity Engine©®. It shows you stuff you don't know you want.
  • X201 9 Mar 2012 18:16:51 13,433 posts
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    Dirtbox wrote:
    There's probably already an identical thread to this , but fucked if anyone is ever going to find it.
    :lol::lol::lol:
  • MrTomFTW Moderator 9 Mar 2012 18:17:10 31,665 posts
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    It sends search requests to me, and I have to quickly pull up whatever results I can.

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  • Dirtbox 9 Mar 2012 18:25:53 74,005 posts
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    It's outsourced to an indian call centre. There's a dozen blind children inputting the results manually.

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  • DaM 9 Mar 2012 18:33:23 11,837 posts
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    This is a trick question, isn't it?
  • Lukus 9 Mar 2012 18:35:42 18,757 posts
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    Infinite Improbability Drive

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  • Load_2.0 2 Oct 2012 20:20:56 15,003 posts
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    Has some one tweaked the search function? It seems to be functioning in a slightly more tolerable fashion.
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