Search results sorted roughly by date (or maybe a better display of the date in the results)?
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This is just a thought and maybe it already has been addressed or used to be this way and was changed (probably for a good reason)...so consider this more of a discussion rather than a suggestion. first, let me say that CP's search seems to be the best forum search I've seen in a long time. Usually, with programming forums, it is easier to search the forum with Google rather than the built in search. Kudos to CP for that. but it seems to me that if the search results were somewhat date sorted before relevance sorted would make it slightly better... example, the following search: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Search.aspx?fid=0&kw=fantasy+baseball[^] before I posted in the lounge resulted in the 2003 thread as the first result. I almost replied to it until I noticed the date. I was thinking it would be nice to have results sorted by some very rough date order (perhaps by year)? And of course a simple note at the top of the above search result that says "No results from 2010" or something to that effect would be useful. The reasoning is that many searches are for time sensitive subjects and it doesn't do any good to the person searching to see results from 7 years ago. Of course, on the other hand, this is a programming forum and many times those 7yo results are just as useful as if it were posted yesterday. So I guess its kinda a wash on that one. thoughts?
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This is just a thought and maybe it already has been addressed or used to be this way and was changed (probably for a good reason)...so consider this more of a discussion rather than a suggestion. first, let me say that CP's search seems to be the best forum search I've seen in a long time. Usually, with programming forums, it is easier to search the forum with Google rather than the built in search. Kudos to CP for that. but it seems to me that if the search results were somewhat date sorted before relevance sorted would make it slightly better... example, the following search: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Search.aspx?fid=0&kw=fantasy+baseball[^] before I posted in the lounge resulted in the 2003 thread as the first result. I almost replied to it until I noticed the date. I was thinking it would be nice to have results sorted by some very rough date order (perhaps by year)? And of course a simple note at the top of the above search result that says "No results from 2010" or something to that effect would be useful. The reasoning is that many searches are for time sensitive subjects and it doesn't do any good to the person searching to see results from 7 years ago. Of course, on the other hand, this is a programming forum and many times those 7yo results are just as useful as if it were posted yesterday. So I guess its kinda a wash on that one. thoughts?
I have thought about this also. Example (may not be real): Working with SQL 2008 I find that the answers to SQL 2000 is good for 2000 but will not work for 2008 thus an answer from 2005 does not always help. I am not saying what is here is bad as I could not even get a result this if I tried. Just my two cents.