Yeah, I left that broken a little too long.
Searching more then one word led to a lot of irrelevant videos coming back. It was the first proper search engine I've ever written and it's implementation kind of intimidated me to debug, so I left it undone for quite a bit. In the end it was very simple to fix, and I made some improvements while I was at it.
Sometimes though you can search for a video and not get that much back even though you know there are relevant videos on the site. That's because it looks at the title, description, keywords, and uploader. Sometimes it's just not natural to type out a description or mention everything that is relevant. That's what keywords are for, but I absolutely don't blame anyone for not using them.
But if anyone happens to want to go through videos and keyword them for fun you are more then welcome to. I'll also be adding it to the uploads page just as an invitation if you want the video to be easier to find.
It also helps some alt-tech search engines (not bing or google) find content.
Yeah, I left that broken a little too long.
Searching more then one word led to a lot of irrelevant videos coming back. It was the first proper search engine I've ever written and it's implementation kind of intimidated me to debug, so I left it undone for quite a bit. In the end it was very simple to fix, and I made some improvements while I was at it.
Sometimes though you can search for a video and not get that much back even though you know there are relevant videos on the site. That's because it looks at the title, description, keywords, and uploader. Sometimes it's just not natural to type out a description or mention everything that is relevant. That's what keywords are for, but I absolutely don't blame anyone for not using them.
But if anyone happens to want to go through videos and keyword them for fun you are more then welcome to. I'll also be adding it to the uploads page just as an invitation if you want the video to be easier to find.
It also helps some alt-tech search engines (not bing or google) find content.
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