Kioskea - The search feature

Intro

Kioskea possess its own database, which grew larger over time. To perform a search on Kioskea you can use:

The General search bar

This search bar (see picture) is for general search on Kioskea . By typing a keyword (example: NTFS), the search engine will search the topics (FAQ, Forum post...etc ) where the word NTFS has been used.
The general search bar cover the following sections:
- Forum
- FAQ
- Download
- News
- Reviews
- Buying Guide

The Forum Search Bar

The second search bar, is exclusively reserved for the forum database.

• E.g .. you get an error (80048820), in this case you search the forum and get all the related publications.
• Also you can refine your searches using selecting the appropriate forum.

The advanced features of forum search engine

The search engine has the following limitations:

• Only the first 255 characters of each message are indexed
• It is updated every minute

Here are the commands that can be used together:

• answers:true|1|yes displays messages with answers (false|0 for unanswered posts)
• forum:true|1|yes search in the forum window (etc)
• solved:true|1|yes search for solved messages (false|0 the unsolved)
• question:true|1|yes search the question (false|0 for replies in only)
• member:true|1|yes search for posts made by members (false|0 for anonymous)
• user: "username" search for posts made by a specific user
• show:last displays the name of the author and the date of the last post

The following operators can be used

• OR Operator : hello|world
• NOT Operator : hello -world, hello !world
• Phrase "hello world"
• Proximity (max distance between words in quotation marks): "hello world"~10
• Word beginning with: compu*

Search by date

• year: 2009
• month: 02
• day: 31

The predefined operators:

• date:lastweek
• date:lastyear

• date:lastmonth 

• date:last24hours
• date:last30days
• date:thisweek
• date:thismonth
• date:thisyear

The search feature and the "My messages" section are linked. So just click on "My Messages" and enter a keyword in the search engine to search for a related post in your published messages:

• You can also search all posts made by a specific user

See also

Knowledge communities.

• Forum
• Viruses/security forum
• Chrome forum
• Suggestions

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