In short, there should be up-to-date & lesser search results.

- now by default search results are ordered by latest post date (descending). Meaning if you look for "Anna met-art", you will get the latest and therefore the most popular girls first

- There will be only 1 search result / topic and the link will lead to the topic's latest post. So no more tens of same pics/threads as results and links to individual posts on inner pages.

Thanks goes to Funky for testing the new tweaks!

If older posts / links are no longer found by the search, is this not a recipe for loads of reposts? If I find a link I normally run it through the search first to see if it has already been posted. Also, will it not be harder for members to trace threads by searching for links? Or am I misunderstanding the changes that have been made?

No, it should not cause more reposts. Older posts of the same topic are no longer in the search results, but all the same topics are there. So people will find the already posted stuff, but more easily. If you searched for some girl with the old search you will always find the same girl with the new one, but only once/topic... not tens of results but from one same topic.

Searching links is easier or harder - it depends. Let's say there used to be one topic containing lots of links to a site called "examplesite.com". The old search would return all the posts that have that link, so you could click every post one-by-one and look at the link. But who would like to do so, since why not browse thru the topic itself since it contains that many links? Jumping back & forth for because of some particular site only serves a purpose of finding illegal content of particular file sharing site... don't really know any other reason.

The new one would only return the latest link of the topic containing the search word. However, if the same "examplesite.com" would be on more then 1 topic, the new search would still return all the same topics that the old one.. with a link to the latest post with that result. So now we prefer giving out more different search results (=topics), just like Google, then giving out dublicate results from the same topic. So the new search is no longer interested in finding all links from one topic, but finding the topic.

It might sound confusing, but now have a search that functions much more like the search in the popular vBulletin software... only with that exception that ours is better, since it links to particular post, not returning only a list of topics. Other difference is that we show an except from the post.

Regarding the point I made about reposts, it is an easy thing to run a link through the search to see if it comes up as previously posted. But how many people are going to look through a thread of maybe many pages looking to see if it is already there?

It seems to me this new approach is ok if you have a name to search for, but not so good if you don't.

Searching if somethings has been previously posted is not a problem. Finding something specific - like a link - still works, but not finding a set of links from the same post.

For example,searching a link  "www.examplesite.com/gallery/1.html" would give the same result as always - a link to a post where that was mentioned. So people can instantly see if it has been posted earlier. However, if I wanted to search from a partial link, like "www.examplesite.com" from a specific topic, there won't be a set of results... which is how it's now intended, since we don't want hundreds of results from a one and same topic.

Hundreds of results from a same topic, like "Anna M" when searching for "Anna", would give impression thereare no other Annas on PeachyForum... therefore the change on the new search.

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I like it very much !  Better and more efficient than before.  Thanks

I just had occasion to use the new version. Seems to work quite well. Thanks. Should  make the moderator's life easier, as long as people use it.

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