Silk Road forums
Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: Floyd on January 10, 2012, 08:29 pm
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Why can't we search for words with less than four letters in it on silk road? Just think about MDA, LSD, DMT, DET, MET, 2C*, JWH, etc.
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I ran into this several times. I want to be able to search for LSD. :o Come on, you can do it.
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A lot of websites configured the search index to skip three letter words to save space and time on the server. Perhaps with enough time and enough money, eventually they will be able to reconfigure it to have 3 letter words in the search.
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Search is a massive load on servers at the best of times.
The database has to index all fields to be searched, and builds indexes to those fields to speed up searching. Changing to indexing and searching for 3 letter combinations, instead of 4 or more as it is presently, would add significant overhead and server load, and could even double the load for search.
I have products from suppliers such as DNA, so I too am pretty darn anxious to see a 3 character search key. It is coming, I'm told, but it's a few weeks away yet, at least, until the db server architecture will be robust enough to handle the extra load.
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Point about server load taken. Currently it seems to do a fulltext search. To reduce load they could choose to implement a title only search for 3 letter searches. That should reduce the load and the size of indexes.
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Point about server load taken. Currently it seems to do a fulltext search. To reduce load they could choose to implement a title only search for 3 letter searches. That should reduce the load and the size of indexes.
True that; I find the full-text searches annoying, anyway. Sometimes vendors include a sampling of their other popular products towards the bottom of the listing so that it shows up in totally unrelated searches, and that pisses me off sometimes. 3-letter searches combined with title-only searches would be a god-send to me. =]
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indeed searching is very resource intensive but it doesn't have to be im sure it doesn't help that SR is running on Ubuntu lol
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indeed searching is very resource intensive but it doesn't have to be im sure it doesn't help that SR is running on Ubuntu lol
C'mon, now, Ubuntu has legitimate market share in enterprise applications; it might be slowed down if it was running Ubuntu desktop edition as opposed to the server edition, but Ubuntu is still a good Linux.
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I ran into this several times. I want to be able to search for LSD. :o Come on, you can do it.
Left-side column: Drugs>Psychedelics>LSD. :)
Ditto for DMT, and IIRC, there's another link for the 2C family (I'd check but I've been trying to access SR for the past three hours unsucessfully). Don't know about the other examples OP listed, though.
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I ran into this several times. I want to be able to search for LSD. :o Come on, you can do it.
Left-side column: Drugs>Psychedelics>LSD. :)
Ditto for DMT, and IIRC, there's another link for the 2C family (I'd check but I've been trying to access SR for the past three hours unsucessfully). Don't know about the other examples OP listed, though.
Some of them yes, but others, no. That would be fine if it worked for all of them, but it most certainly does not. And I'm not sure that it's practical to really make it work for all of them. =/
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That would be really nice!