Advanced search features
MacUpdate searching just got more powerful by adding an advanced search drawer that slides out of the grey search area when you click on the "more" hyperlink. It allows you to search for Macintosh software using partial words, excluded words, phrases, and required words.
For example, if you wanted to search for MP3 players that are not from Apple, you could search for the phrase "mp3 player" and exclude the word "Apple." You can also use boolean characters right in the main search field. Place quotation marks around a phrase for exact phrase matches. Or place a "+" character in front of a word to require it. Place a "-" character in front of a word to exclude it. Examples:
+mp3 -itunes (searches for mp3 without itunes keyword listings)
+adobe "image editor" (requires the word adobe and the phrase "image editor")
appl* +video (find partial words starting with "appl" and requires the word "video")
For example, if you wanted to search for MP3 players that are not from Apple, you could search for the phrase "mp3 player" and exclude the word "Apple." You can also use boolean characters right in the main search field. Place quotation marks around a phrase for exact phrase matches. Or place a "+" character in front of a word to require it. Place a "-" character in front of a word to exclude it. Examples:
+mp3 -itunes (searches for mp3 without itunes keyword listings)
+adobe "image editor" (requires the word adobe and the phrase "image editor")
appl* +video (find partial words starting with "appl" and requires the word "video")
3 Comments:
Searching macupdate.com sucks.
You are fooling yourself if you think it has improved.
It just keeps getting harder and harder to find things that should be easy to find.
Please do not ask stupid questions about refreshing webpages or caching in Safari, please. Thank you.
EXAMPLE:
Try to find sharpening tools.
Search "sharpen"
Only 1 application is found.
Search "sharpener"
A different application is found.
Search "nik"
Nik Sharpener is not in the results. Is it in the macupdate database? At this point, I start to feel as if I no longer care.
I think anyone who uses sharpening tools for editing images is aware that there are more applications and plug-ins available for this task than these search results would indicate.
As one of the few people actually looking at this blog, and commenting to provide macupdate with valuable feedback, it is frustrating that macupdated.com is
1. making searching less reliable
2. making searching more difficult
3. pretending searching is getting better.
4. censoring negative comments regarding necessary improvements to searching macupdate.com
macupdate.com used to be a very useful resource. it still is, but it keeps getting less and less useful with each new pseudo-improvement to searching.
Why does the MacUpate main screen take up only 40 percent of the screeen?
anonymous: What do you mean by the main MU space taking up only 40% of the screen? It spans all the way across, less on the info/download pages where we need to keep the text paragraphs closer together.
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