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gurudood |
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I seem to experience a weird problem...
If I search for example: crappy cars, garbage cars, junky cars, no good cars, anything with "cars" appears. This can be very upsetting to listing owners. Is there any way we can filter some bad words? Or make powerseek search more for exact words? What is the best way this can be fixed so negative searches don't resolve to positive listings?
Only way I noticed, someone searching for a naughty name and a childrens listing appeared.
GuruDood |
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Thanks for the suggestion. We will consider the options available with future development.
If I understand correctly, then you have to consider that people will actually search for crappy cars - for example: Some one searching for reviews of cars that are crappy.
Anything with the word 'cars' or 'crappy' will apear because it matches, (but will recieve a low relevance) however if you have a listing with the word for example 'crappy' and 'cars' this will receive a higher match score over those only containing one of the words. If you get a direct phrase match in a listing ('crappy cars') it recieves a higher score and will be displayed in the top results.
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gurudood
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Yes thats right...
Too bad there wasnt a way I could filter out some words...
Example if I had a list of the foul/sexual words I could enter them into the database. When Someone searches using these negative or bad words,
it will go to the "nomatch.html" page.
This way if I can find a list of bad words (.txt file) or similar online I can skim through it make sure those are the bad words I want banned....
Then add them to a window in the control panel.
Then if any of the bad words were used then maybe we could make it have its own "nomatch.html" optional. This way people can customize their own "nomatch.html" because of foul language the search engine will not search for them terms.
Does this sound like the wrong way to fix the problem? Or am I right?
Anyone elses suggestions would be greatfully appreciated.
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gurudood |
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After thinking about it... I thought maybe it would be better to reject the search if any of the bad words were found. Sending the visitor directly to the standard "nomatch.html". Reason being is that pointing out the bad words to the searcher may look just as bad, seeing we know what the bad word already is  ...
If it was setup this way, the searcher would try every bad word in the book, and give up, thinking there was no search results.
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We will most likely have bad word filter options available in coming versions.
Thanks
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