----------------------------------- jkf Sun 22 Apr, 2007 Please Remove "." (periods) From Topic Titles ----------------------------------- Please take out the periods separating words in the topic titles. It makes the search fail... Do not use titles such as... "This.Is.A.Sample.Title..." Because it creates one giant search word "This.Is.A.Sample.Title..." and makes it unsearchable and it will clutter up the search index and make it fail after a while. Release groups like to use those names because it fools a lot of search engines from finding the files but engines like Google are already working around it and finding them... thanks ----------------------------------- hbgator Mon 23 Apr, 2007 Re: Please Remove "." (periods) From Topic Titles ----------------------------------- sorry ,jkf, I know that a few of mine have periods :( ----------------------------------- jkf Mon 23 Apr, 2007 Re: Please Remove "." (periods) From Topic Titles ----------------------------------- Not to worry, I have been fixing them as I find them. I was just curious why some of the titles couldn't be searched for and ran a few experiments myself. Although, I have changed most of the ones that I have found, they are still not searchable until I rebuild the search index... and that in itself has problems because there are many posts that have...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... (ASCII Art)... and things that look like that.... which stalls the search index rebuild because the parser considers it as a huge word until it finds the next space or delimiter... :lol: Then I started looking for the "why" some chose _ instead of the . and so forth. The underscore was used to replace the space on systems and servers that dealt with filenames that couldn't have spaces, and the period was basically used to spoof direct searches in the beginning, but then it just became a popular thing to do...