HELP SEARCHING PLEASE?!?
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I LOVE the site, but i cant search and i get frustrated and leave sometimes because I dont know how to connect search terms and operators. . . each site is different in regards to the syntax that must be used to search. can someone PLEASE PLEASE point me to a guide or something that explains when and how I can use: {() "" '' [] AND OR NOT , - _ } on the GT torrent search. Thank you in advance.
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do not use any characters and symbols ...
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There is no AND/OR operator. It is as follows:
By default, all entries will be processed using AND operator.
If you search for:
guigsims holenextdooryou are making a search for torrents containing both the terms guigsims AND holenextdoor.If you want to search for either one OR the other, do
(guigsims)(holenextdoor)with each string between parenthesis and no space between them.If you want to search for an exact phrase, use quotations, like
"guigsims guilherme oliveira"If you want to exclude a word use:
guigsims -guilhermeor to exclude an exact phrase:guigsims -"guilherme oliveira".Hopefully this was helpful.
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@ianfontinell-0 That was informative and to the point. I also learnt about use of parenthesis ().
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@ianfontinell-0 Thank you both so much! I will certainly bookmark this post, lol. didnt know it was so simple. Just a brief follow up if you dont mind?
Lets say I wanted to search for gay muscular tall daddies, but not hairy or short daddies. .
I should just type it in as "muscular tall daddies"?
or should I do:
(muscular tall daddies) -hairy-short
muscular tall daddies -hairy -short
muscular tall daddies -(hairy short)
etc.like how do I stack exclusions and is there any more info on parenthesis()?
also is there a use for the wildcard (*) or the root extender (~)?
What about the categories and subcategories?
Thank you for the help yall, I really appreciate it!.
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@Jbky111-0 said in HELP SEARCHING PLEASE?!?:
Lets say I wanted to search for gay muscular tall daddies, but not hairy or short daddies. .
You're very unlikely to get the expected results because on this site there is no tag system, the search is performed in the torrent title and description. There will be thousands of torrents featuring daddies that do not contain "daddy" anywhere in the title or description, same goes for many other subjects.
And using too many keywords can bring very poor results, as already pointed in a previous comment. And even for the torrents that happen to contain all keywords, there's no guaranteed that they are related to each other.
GayTorrent uses Boolean search, it does not have a Natural Language Processor, so it cannot possibly "interpret" the intent of your query. For instance, in a NPL-based search, if you look for "muscular tall daddies" the algorithm will understand that you are looking for daddies who are muscular and tall. In a Keyword based search, you are simply looking for 3 keywords that have no correlation.
Using negative search to exclude generic keywords will filter out a lot of torrent that could be exactly what you're looking for. "Short" is a very common word that is used with multiple intentions, not always it's used to address someone's height.
To have a better chance of finding what you want, keep the keywords minimal, and instead try to filter out results using the categories filter.
Sorry for the TED Talk xD
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@ianfontinell-0 What if you want to search for "Ten Trans Firemen Get Fist Fucked by Pro-Choice Lesbian Nuns" scenes 1, 2 and 5 but not scenes 3 and 4?
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OH NO MAN THE MORE THE BETTER!!!
Thank you so much. I have more questions, but you have already poured so much time into me! I get it's a Boolean search, but it's odd that it doesn't allow root extenders (~) or wildcard (*) searches. . . May you point me to where this info comes from Ian? I totally trust everything you say, I just don't want to consume your time is all. . . and I cant get a straight answer on this by searching:
What is the difference b/t "old" and new search? both are Boolean searches still I assume?
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@Jbky111-0 said in HELP SEARCHING PLEASE?!?:
May you point me to where this info comes from Ian?
I don't think it's ever been documented, how the search works in this site... All I am passing to you is what I have learned by experimenting. So far, from everything I have tried, we have operators like AND, OR, NOT, LITERAL and ROOT:
ABC DEFequals toABC AND DEF
All results containing both keywords.(ABC)(DEF)equals toABC OR DEF
All results containing at least one keyword.ABC -DEFequals toABC !DEF
All results containing ABC, omitting all ABC results that also contains DEF."ABC DEF"equals to="ABC DEF"
All results containing the exact phrase.ABC*equals to~ABC
All results containing the root ABC.There don't seem to be a way to perform wildcard search.
Every site has their own search algorithm, we must learn and adapt to extract the best of each. Have in mind that here search is boolean, it checks a database and outputs what meets the search criteria. It doesn't understand the meaning of the word or the intent of the query.
And lastly, the old in "search (old)" refers to the page layout. The search algorithm is the same in both pages.
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@ianfontinell-0 OKAY, cool cool! thank you so much Ian, you're a saint!
