article search is terrible

[ignatius345]

I just went to search from the front page for "WWDC" to see when it is this year. The results were all over the place, and most of them dated. The first one was a redacted article from like 2003, and the second one was from 2006! There doesn't seem to be any option to sort the results in any way, either.

 

[Ben J.]

I prefer to use google and add the "site:" function to the search:

WWDC site:macrumors.com
Perhaps even:
WWDC 2024 site:macrumors.com

To search the forums:
searchword site:forums.macrumors.com

Works for any site.

 

[iStorm]

I agree. I usually end up using Advanced Search and searching that way.

Though for a question like when is WWDC 2024, I would have just used a regular search engine.

 

[arn]

ya, search isn't great. We are using this widget right now since it was supposed to be better than our normal site search. But not sure it is.

We'll look into it again

 

[sgtaylor5]

And as far as I can see posting a phrase returns a search for the words as if they’re not a phrase: “Business accounting software” returns ���business OR accounting OR software”, which is unusable.

 

[Ben J.]

And as far as I can see posting a phrase returns a search for the words as if they’re not a phrase: “Business accounting software” returns “business OR accounting OR software”, which is unusable.

use " for exact phrase search.
"exact phrase search".

 

[sgtaylor5]

use " for exact phrase search.
"exact phrase search".

I’m on mobile and can’t find it; I knew it should be there.

 

[Ben J.]

I’m on mobile and can’t find it; I knew it should be there.

Don't know if this helps, but on mac it's shift-2.

 

[sgtaylor5]

Don't know if this helps, but on mac it's shift-2.

Thanks, I didn’t know that; I’ll shift to my Mac.