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Advanced Search Options for Sphinn?
For a site that is an authority on all things search, Sphinn sure seems to have a rather lackluster search function. With the amount of content available here, it can be very difficult to find what you are looking for if it is not "hot" at the moment.
Here are some features I think would be helpful:
- set date range for searching
- search only hot topics
- search only titles
- search by user submission
- search only new items
- search by domain article appears on
- sort search results by: latest, relevancy, sphinns, etc.
- search for: exact phrase, all words in any order, etc.
- search in specific categories
- search only articles with at least x number of phinns
- search comments
- search only users with x stories that have gone hot
- include SEL articles in search
Etc., etc... you get the point. Sphinn does an excellent job of showcasing the latest and most popular articles, but looking for archived material is tough. Sometimes, I read something that I am not too interested in at the time, then I realize months later that "Hey I read an article on Sphinn that could help me". But if I didn't save the article at the time I read it it can be very difficult to locate. Sometimes I can't even tell if an article I am thinking about submitting has been sphunn yet.
Possibly there is a way to run these advanced searches here at Sphinn and I just haven't found it. Maybe this topic has already been brought up in the Sphinn Zone. Unfortunately, I can't find it... not through the search feature at least. :)
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Yep, it's on the list to improve search, believe me. We know we need it.