Search RESULTS Order

[Greg Mihalik]

Is there a way to get search results in date order, versus the random mess I get now?

Preferably newest to oldest.

[Cayenne Redmonk]

No.  But, on my phone I can, for example search for tarp between May 15, 2010 and May 17, 2010 using the daterange operator and two Julian dates.   See screen shots.   On my computer this does not work.   I can’t create new threads, so I can’t file a bug report.

Tarp daterange:2455332-2455334

Or MLD in the last 3 weeks

MLD daterange:2457345-2457365

[Cayenne Redmonk]

 

[BlackHatGuy]

You can do a daterange search on BPL, but it still won’t put results in date order. I’m assuming this site still uses Google search, and as far as I know, there is no way to search using Google and get your results in date order – it’s not one of the search operators Google offers.

[Cayenne Redmonk]

If you want date order, you don’t want a search engine, you want to select from posts where content contains at least N terms ordered by date.

Search engines like Google don’t place poor matches first because they are newer.    The best matches go first.

The search actually works really well, except for gearswap.   Gearswappers would be better off filtering only posts that contain any of their terms, ordering by date.

the default ordering is probably relevance.

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