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pdiggity
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posted: Jan. 23, 2006 @ 10:58p 
I think a very easy & basic function would be a necessity: the ability to sort by days old simply by clicking an up or down arrow on the top of the search results page , such as what you see in web stores to sort by price - that would really help. Other such features in this area would be a nice and simple improvement. I guess just keeping it working would also help, since I just placed a search that gave me zero results (which is not possible) |
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cooljw
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posted: Jan. 23, 2006 @ 11:50p
Get rid of the current search function that's driven by the box in the upper RH corner. It's results were never very logical, relevant, or sortable.
I do think the site needs a quick and dirty one box, no option search function, perhaps a Google-enabled search box would do the trick. |
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thepickandroll
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posted: Jan. 24, 2006 @ 6:57a
this might just come down to style but when you check off boxes for what forums you want to search messages, I always click on "select all" thinking I am clicking "search".
the "select all" should show up at the top next to the 'forum' heading and leave only "search" and "reset" as the bottom two buttons side-by-side.
e.g.
forum [select all] </-----------put that button here so it's not cluttering the bottom buttons
Computers Contests and Sweepstakes
Deal Discussion Expired Deals
FatWallet Finance
For Sale/Trade Free Stuff
Gmail™ invitations Grocery Coupon Trading
Grocery Coupons Hot Deals
Off Topic One Time Use Coupons
Online Auctions Product Reviews
Rebate Tracking Rewards
Testing 1 2 3 Travel Deals
</------------------------------------- bad place to put "select all"
[search] [reset]
the way it is currently, the [select all] bar is at an awkward spot |
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Knuteski
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posted: Jan. 24, 2006 @ 8:16a
Just one Suggestion.
If you do a search by User, have the results flag what message(s) (or at least what page the message was on) the User left. Some of the threads are 100+ pages and trying to find a message I typed was looking for a needle in a haystack. |
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angelsou
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posted: Jan. 24, 2006 @ 12:44p
I think a search should be auto-sorted by most recent (not posts, but the originator field) |
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mrwoody
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posted: Jan. 24, 2006 @ 1:30p
I am trying to write a keyword with firefox.
Does anyone know what are the possibilities for the field : SearchFields?
What does quick=1 mean?
At the moment, this is what I have:
http://fsearch.fatwallet.com/index.php?searchPhrase=%s&catid=18&searchFields=t&quick=1 |
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axast
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posted: Jan. 24, 2006 @ 10:17p
1. add wild card searches
2. make search on title as a real keyword search. i have noiced if i have 2 keywords to search in tile, it treats my keywords as a phrase, not as 2 separate words. |
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itismejs
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posted: Jan. 25, 2006 @ 3:43p
Have the option to omit "red deals" dead deals and locked threads. |
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UltiPlayer
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posted: Jan. 26, 2006 @ 8:15a
How about linking each store (listed in your "Stores" tab) to a 3 (or 4) digit #. Then you can just search on the store ID#.
This way, it doesn't matter if someone mispelled or abreviated a store, you still get back the correct search results. |
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munchibe
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posted: Jan. 26, 2006 @ 2:30p
Well, for one thing, i searched for 'usb port hub' and i got
'Where does one report rebate fraud?'
I looked at the forum post and the words 'usb' 'port' and 'hub' didnt appear (at least i dont think i saw it when i skimmed it)
I think if you want to improve your search, you should get a search engine that won't pull things that aren't related.
::shrug:: maybe it's just me though. |
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esoterica
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posted: Jan. 26, 2006 @ 4:57p
rallison7 said:I would also recommend incorporating a Google search into the site. Keep both. Google's search engine is naturally better at finding variations of what you are searching for, so this could up the relevant results. It also handles multiple search words better.
Here's a hint: Use Google (including the Firefox or Safari built-in Google search field) to search Fatwallet by adding the "site:" modifier to your search. e.g.:
"fye site:fatwallet.com" will search all of FatWallet for Fye
"fye site:fatwallet.com/forums/" will search FatWallet Forums for Fye
"fye site:www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.php?catid=18" will search FatWallet Hot Deals forum for Fye
"kmart site:www.fatwallet.com/store.php" will search FatWallet Stores for Kmart
Edit: unfortunately Google doesn't crawl FW in realtime, so this is only useful for searches where it's not essential that you get the absolute most recent results |
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ComputerWiz
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posted: Jan. 27, 2006 @ 3:03p
I don't think that this is currently done:
When you search, search the thread and the actual items mentioned. When someone posts about "epson c 86" the Quick Links section of the Quick Summary finds the item as "Epson C86" or whatever it does. You get the idea. How about when you search, you use the same algorithm to search all of the items in the thread and include those as a kinda meta-data.
I had mentioned this idea a long time ago, was told it was a good one, but nothing ever happened with it.
Very similar to above (and far more useful) it would be great to find by store, item, B&M, online, YMMV, etc. This can be achieved by having the OP check off the options from a list. This information would be optional to include but would help in searching. By selecting a store (or FW can "guess" like the Quick Links but for stores instead of items) people can search by store and not have to deal with people spelling OfficeMax as oficemax, office max, OM, etc.
Just my 2 cents. (If anyone cares what I think - I actually don't use the search feature that often anyway) |
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pratikgr
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posted: Jan. 27, 2006 @ 3:35p
Need advance search on frontpage of each section. |
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hshiao
- Senior Member
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posted: Jan. 27, 2006 @ 5:57p
new idea: let the OP or the community update post include a field for last day of sale or rebate. example: ad expires Saturday, enter Saturday in that field, thread is marked dead after Saturday. example 2: rebate expires 1/1/2020, thread is automatically marked dead after 1/1/2020. this would make searches easier by filtering out dead threads. |
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kbaxter
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posted: Jan. 28, 2006 @ 6:42p
yurgreat said:Gaiamera said:the date!
put a filter for posting date/last reply date please
when i need to search something i dont want to see those 276 days old topic on top!
bingo!!! pain in the butt to click on date everytime i search to get latest
Actually, the date feature is there, but it defaults to sorting by "score". I think it would be better to default to the most recent dates first, as others have pointed out.
Thx |
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lebazar
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posted: Jan. 29, 2006 @ 1:21a
Option to FILTER / SORT by DATE of post!!!
Why is it that old posts dated like 299 days ago would appear on the first page?
These are no interest... at all.
Thanks for asking. |
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Blip
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posted: Jan. 29, 2006 @ 10:50a
Today, threads that have been updated just an hour ago are not showing up with the latest date in the search reports -- they've got 8-hour-old "last post" dates.
For instance, when searching "Contests and Sweepstakes" for "San Diego", the "Kyxy Points Program San Diego" shows up first, with a "Last Post" time of 12:14 am today, by GetMyPoint. If you click through, you learn that the last post was at 7:24 AM.
This bug just started happening today. |
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IVYtony
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posted: Jan. 29, 2006 @ 2:46p
I'd suggest you put a google search option on your forum, which supports whole-sentence search. |
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