Do you find myLot search engine helpful?

@Pompon (1757)
Poland
March 13, 2008 4:30pm CST
I know many users don't use this feature at all but sometimes I want to know if discussion I'd like to start was brought up before and so I write some tags in the search box above. And I have to say sotimes that its accuracy is bad:/ Really. It finds nothing and then after I put the topic I see couple simmilar discussions listed under my post. i even did a test I tried to search my own discussion using tags I had in it and Mr. "Powered by Yahoo search" didn't find it. Do you have the same experiences as me or not?
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@ellie333 (21016)
14 Mar 08
Yes this has happened to me a couple of times but usually if I haven't put whole text search and only done a search title search by accident and then I posted thinking there isn't one of that topic to find a similar, but luckily they have been very old discussions except once and I responded to the poster apologising as it was unitentional. Ellie :D Ps You are my referrer so I hope I am active enough on her for you. Ellie:D
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@Pompon (1757)
• Poland
14 Mar 08
:P yoy've been here for only two months and you almost have posted more replies than me. You're doing great here:P
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@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
13 Mar 08
I must say that the search engine served me fairly well... I use it once in a while to find discussions from certain interests without having to search on the interests page, and it found me some discussions. But I guess I never really needed an accurate finding so I can't say I tested the search engine thoroughly.
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@Pompon (1757)
• Poland
13 Mar 08
Good it works for you:P Maybe my expectation are to high xD
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@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
13 Mar 08
I don't use the myLot search to search the web, but I do use it to research discussion that have been made previously.
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@Pompon (1757)
• Poland
13 Mar 08
And do you have good results using it? Are they accurate enough for you?
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@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
13 Mar 08
It works okay. It is in no way 100% accurate though. Even when you do a full text search if people didn't use the exact wording you are looking for, the discussion won't be pulled up.
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• Canada
14 Mar 08
It's no problem for me to find anything I want by using the MyLot search feature. I think it is absolutely great. When I don't feel like going through my interests, or when I want to find something specific, I use the MyLot search feature.
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• Philippines
14 Mar 08
Personally, I find myLot search engine useful for me especially if I am looking for a particular or specific topic. Actually, I prefer to search topics that really interest me a lot. Have a great day! :-)
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@sumit31 (126)
• India
14 Mar 08
I think my ot search engine is very good, from this we search a particular topic, Only thing that user must used appropriate TAGS
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@sahyd2don (2942)
• India
14 Mar 08
I never used mylot search.I never flet the need to use the search engine here.I think i used it once or twice to search my mails.Thats all .
@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
14 Mar 08
hi pompon! i did experience the same thing. i wanted to be sure no one had ever started a discussion that i was thinking about coz i was pretty sure that someone out there must have started something about it because the topic was really popular. so i searched for it using the myLot search engine and i was so surprised that there hasn't any discussion about it yet. so i started the discussion and voila! after i had entered the tags and finished the discussion, that's when i only saw the related and almost the same discussions as mine! so i ended up responding to those discussions too even if i was kinda feeling embarrassed about it. .
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@gemini_rose (16264)
13 Mar 08
I have never used it, although I could do with using it to try to find out about discussions I want to do that may have been done before, I shall have to give it a go and see if its any good or not.
@Foxfire1875 (2010)
14 Mar 08
I use it a lot to find a particular interest and also to check to see if someone has already started a discussion. It has always brought up my discussions, although you have to be careful with spelling. It is only as good as the members can make it though as it relies on us to supply tages to discussions.
@leeapollo (611)
• China
14 Mar 08
frankly speaking,I have never used the mylot search engine .I think is not so helpful of useful.
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@kilani123 (864)
• United Arab Emirates
14 Mar 08
hi there how u all doing my freinds i hope that u all fine well regarding to that subject i think its good in finding disscusions related to my intrests but u know i dont use it too much latley coz of the stories splash pages it covers every thing good luck my man
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• Canada
14 Mar 08
I'm also a new user, does someone know how I can invite friends to join mylot and search others that I'm interested, say sb at the same city or have the same hobby?
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@puretor (155)
• China
14 Mar 08
I am new here .So i don't know that we can use the mylot search engine to help some question before. But i will try to use it when i have some quesiton or i need some information .Thanks Pompon ,you had told me to use the search engine:)