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Jakotsu September 30th, 2004 06:59 AM

Irrelivant Search Results
 
Hi,

One of the main quibles that LimeWire still has that gets on my nerves is while searching. A lot of the time i always get results which dont match my query that i have specifically entered.

For example if do a search filling in the artist and title field in the audio section i get results that only match the Artist's name which i have entered, or in worse cases hits that just include various words from the "Title" i have entered. I thought the point of being able to search with this extended meta data was so u could be more specific, but my results are so random sometimes.... Is this just the way LimeWire searches? or is it because of other clients reacting to the search or something?

murasame September 30th, 2004 08:25 AM

No, it's not LW's fault. It doesn't control the content of the files that are shared, so it's all up to the users. And some of us are obviously not "playing by the rules".
Actually, you can experience the exact same thing with your web browser. Sometimes when you search for something (for example "Limewire"), you'll get all these scam sites. The reason for this is because they put in their home page all these little keywords in small size and in a color that usually cannot be seen very easily.

Jakotsu September 30th, 2004 10:56 AM

Well i use lots of other filesharing programs, BearShare/Shareaza/Soulseek/Piolet/WinMX/eMule/BCDC++ and they hardly ever return these kind of results. It seems to be a lot more evident in LimeWire for some reason.

murasame September 30th, 2004 02:28 PM

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that LW is, like, the major Gnutella client.

Jakotsu October 1st, 2004 04:47 AM

How does that attribute to what im saying?...

murasame October 1st, 2004 06:41 AM

Maybe, because it's the major Gnutella client, it recieves more results and thus more crap or something.

murasame October 1st, 2004 06:48 AM

Then again, maybe it's just because all those clients have different search engines.
IMO LW doesn't look only in the title. It also looks the other info of the file. That's why when you type in "Title", it will sometimes return stuff that don't even feature that word in the title.
I mean, I've seen results like "01" after having typed in "Title", which makes no sense at first glance. however, when you leave the mouse pointer on top of that file for a few secs, it will reveal further info (if available) that might explain why this result showed up.

Jakotsu October 1st, 2004 07:07 AM

Well it just seems clumsy to me. I mean when i type in the "Title" of a track along with an "Artist", alot of the time i get results returned with the track name that i have entered but by a completely different artist. Which means that it has ignored the the info i have typed in the "Artist" field.

Then when i go do the exact same search on the other filesharing programs i listed, i only get results with the "Title" that i have entered and the "Artist" that i have entered. Which means the search has been successful in return exactly what i have entered.

sberlin October 1st, 2004 08:45 AM

LimeWire 4.2 will do a better job at not returning irrelevant results. Until then, you can use the filter boxes on the left to find matching results.

Jakotsu October 1st, 2004 09:17 AM

Cool, glad to hear :)


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