OT: New search engine

Skydancer has written a new search engine for BL that is worlds of improvement over the old UBB search. The new search engine:
* is much faster than UBB search
* doesn't cause 5 minutes of lag to the forum everytime someone does a search
* allows searching in thread subject/whole thread
* still searches by userid number instead of username (oh well, you can't win em all)
I encourage everyone to try it out - you might even learn something searching through some of the older threads in Australia/Asia/NZ/Middle East Drug Discussion Archive, or the current Australia/Asia/NZ/Middle East Drug Discussion Forum. Also remember that you can search in all the other forums too, from the same search screen - you don't have to load up each forum page then search. There used to be a 'Search All Forums' option a couple years ago, but I think that was making things a bit slow.
SEARCH and you shall find.
BigTrancer

Good work by Skydancer. One thing though, why is the forum list randomly ordered? If I choose 'hop to' at the bottom of a page, the forums are listed orderly. Why aren't they listed this way on the search page. Maybe its just my browser.
Its not a major issue I suppose, just shits me trying to find a particular forum in the list. Search engine does seem a whole lot faster though.

Great work skydancer! It seems alot faster, and now we can search the Archived forums, Hooray!
johnnyonelove: This is just a guess but maybe it is because some posts were created a while before they were last posted/bumped.
[ 17 June 2002: Message edited by: Splatt ]

Great Work
This new search engine works a treat, now i dont have to wait 20 mins to do a search
thanks for the info BT and big ups to SkyDancer for coding the new search engine

Cheers skydancer!

I'm very impressed. Especially for the amount of threads this board handles, the speed/update is great.
Good work!

nice work

Hmm... You can't search nick's anymore?

Sure ya can Splatt
Just enter the member's name or member# and choose "Whole thread".