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[scman14]

can the search engine be updated or expanded?
when i search for a certain file the search engine focuses on files not related to my search

asking for advice please


scman14

[diztrancer]

Give me example of what you search for and not related hits in private message.

[mojo85]

Well you have to first understand the right techniques for searching at the appropriate times. My rule of thumbs are as follows:

1) If I'm searching for a specific file, then I only do a hash based search. The hashes to obtain are either SHA1, MD5, or eD2k. There are other hashes you can use like BTIH, but they only limit your scope to a smaller search base (only people downloading the bit-torrent file)

2) If for a specific filetype with a known metadata. I select the file category to search (Image, Audio, Application, Video, etc) and I also use the metadata to refine the search. For example if I know the file to be 20MB in size then I use the file size filter to prune out files that don't meet the the filesize requirement. Also you can use certain info to filter out unwanted files through the filter box ... for example You were seaching for an martin luther king's speech but you only know that the word dream belongs in the speech. You could search under audio for martin luther king, and use the filter by typing in "dream", no any result containing "dream" will be displayed all else will be filtered out.

3) Don't know the filetype nor the hash ... then don't bother searching.

Shareaza has a powerful search mechanism, but to truly use it requires finesse the first two ways are beginner tips ... you can even do boolean search.

Read more here to harness Shareaza:
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ ... .Searching

Lastly really read the bottom half of the above link. It has helped me before.

[diztrancer]

What about about filtering "Non-mathing files", "Suspicious", "Bogus" in Filter dialog ?

[ocexyz]

Also you can use filter in right low corner of window to eliminate unwanted files by adding criteria like size (in KB or MB) and excluding unwanted phrases by adding them with minus sign "-" into window eg. "-sex" will eliminate all filenames containing "sex".

[scman14]

ooh many thanks to all

i will do as suggested


scman14