Message to Honourable Programmers of ILX: Why Can't I Find The Poll of Best Album By The Who?

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You'll find no big annoying speech of complaint here, I just want to communicate and be helpful. Why can't I search "Best Who album" and get the poll thread for the best album by the Who?

Has anyone managed to find it? How did you do it?

Especially irritating is searching for something and then finding nothing but a bunch of ILE threads. Can't you at least restrict the search to ILM?

― Bimble, Saturday, 23 June 2007 04:58 (eighteen years ago)

Bimble, it's not that that's the issue; it's that the database uses a collection of what's called "stop words". These are words that occur extremely commonly, and are removed from the search index in order to speed up the search, which is necessary to prevent searching locking up resources for extended periods of time and having it impact other users.

It shouldn't happen very often, but unfortunately "the" and "who" are extremely common words and are on the list. If you have trouble, just let me know and I'll find things for you...

best Who studio album

― Keith, Saturday, 23 June 2007 09:32 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks so much Keith!

― Bimble, Sunday, 24 June 2007 01:54 (eighteen years ago)

finding nothing but a bunch of ILE threads

This DOES seem to be a recurrent problem with the search function, though. Seems strange to me.

― xhuxk, Sunday, 24 June 2007 01:57 (eighteen years ago)

is this as gd as the search function is going to get? bcz it often doesn't do its job..

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 June 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

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