What Is The Point Of Doing A Discussion Search?

Hello ellie. I've seen this happening a lot of times. It might be coincidence, or it might just be 'too coincidental'. Like for instance, I've started some topics and after a day or just a few hours, I would see right about the same kind of discussion being made too. I just take the benefit of the doubt and thinking it is just coincidental that the user happens to think around the same topic as well. As for my own searches, I sometimes type in some forms of search and I use the function and I would see a couple of the same topics and sometimes even the same title. ...that says a lot already. So which do I answer then..ha!! Have a good one there..;)

The discussion search helps you to find out if there is already a current discussion with the exact same topic! It uses keywords to find the other discussions, so if you type in one or two keywords, it may not find any other discussions with those keywords! Once you type a new discussion and post it, the search engine will use every word in the discussion, not just the new keywords, and it may find some that are similar to, but not exactly the same, as your new discussion! It is okay and not really a problem!

Truthfully I have never checked! LOL

yes,i do experience this too..

Hi Ellie-actually I've never done that before but will keep an eye on that-hugs littleowl

Yes Ellie,I have and felt weird since the title was almost the same and didn't want anyone thinking i was copying from that person even though it was a year ago..I try to think of things and if there is something close to it,you would think it would show it so you shouldn't have to feel this way. But it got good comments and maybe my friends never saw the other one.LOL Guess you are off to sleep soon..Huggs and sweet dreams!

yes I did, it is just crazy, the discussions are going to overlap, there are just so many things that can be talked about. But you know you should bring that up to the admin, it is impossible not to have discussions overlap.

may be sometimes. avtually i do not use the search criteria to find out all those things about discussion. may be sometimes after reply one, i find similar ones i answer traht if i like it.

I so agree with you ellie. Yesterday I was responding as usual and I wasn't sure if a post I responded to was actually sent. I entered the title of the post and got a page that said it was a bad request so I deleted the last part leaving a couple of words. It brought up about 15 discussions on that subject, all between 4 and 12 months old but not the one I was looking for. I had even gone to the user's profile who posted it and searched through "discussions I started" with no luck. I went to my own profile and searched "discussions I've responded to" with no luck. I have simply not been able to find this discussion on myLot again.

I have tried that once ellie and make me not to research again everytime I will post a new one! LOL!

I have experienced the same thing. Unless you put in the exact title most of the time its not going to show similar discussions. Depends on how you put it in your search. It doesn't matter though. People will answer to the same discussion a hundred times if they are so inclined. Smile.

Yes, ellie, I have had that happen several times. I don't use the discussion search anymore because I can never rely on it. I don't understand why that happens, but it does...all the time. If I don't see a discussion similar by page 10 in the discussion lists, I will just go ahead and post mine and hope for the best. Not that I post many new ones, but it would be nice if it wasn't already out there recently. Maybe Mylot will add this glitch to their long list of things to work on. Ha, like that will happen soon.

yes I don't think the discussion search really works as afterwards I found a discussion that was almost exactly like mine and I did not get evenone response whereas I got 77 from a different discussion. Mylot needs a better method than that.

not yet!! i hope it'll not happened to me..

Yeah, sometimes that happens to me. I think no one must have posted about it, but then it shows up after I post it. I don't care too much though, unless my discussion was posted on the same day as one at the bottom. Sometimes it comes in handy when I'm actually trying to find a discussion on something I'm interested in.

Same here all the trouble to post and some one has already done it,I dont think Discussion search is any good? There should be another way to stop multipal postings they are boring same over and over again. We have to hope mylot will come up with some thing!!!!