I'm going to use this as a place to discuss search, how to use it and what people want to use it for.

A few things:

• When you use multiple words in a search, the default is to perform an OR search. Searching for curly perm will turn up both curly and perm and will list first results that have both terms.
• Searches are case insensitive. Perm, perm and PERM are all the same.
• Searches are made for roots, so perm, perms, permed and perming are all the same. But permanent is a different word.
• A plus symbol in front of a word in a search means that word is required so curly +perm will return only results that have some form of perm in them and will prefer ones that have curly, also. +curly +perm results must have both words though not necessarily next to each other.
• A minus sign means do not include the following word in results so perm -curly would return results that matched perm but would not include ones that also had curly.
• Quotes around a phrase will search for an exact match, but will still ignore case. "curly perm" will match Curly perm and lots of variations but both words in that order must be present.
• Comments are regarded by search as part of the post.
• The sidebars allow you to restrict searches to posts that match various criteria, like type of post, audience rating or authorship. At the top right is a sidebar that allows you to control how the search indexer orders results.

Hi Everyone!

Just an FYI, that the new search server has been configured, and seems to be working fine. We are doing preliminary testing, and working on indexing the site.

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If you tweet or follow twitter, you can find BC news at the @spfn Twitter feed run by Piper.

Due to a change in our security settings, it may be necessary to logoff and log back on in order to reset your session info so you don't get blocked from posting comments.

We are now live on Eva with BC but the following list of sites will be down probably for another day or so:

We hope you have noticed that things are slowly getting better as we tune the server for better performance but sometimes we blow a sour note like this morning.

We use the terms Spider, Crawler, and Reaper pretty much interchangeably here.

You see, they ALL cause traffic.

While Robots/Spiders/Crawlers/Reapers are about 1/3 of our traffic on BigCloset, most of that is VALID traffic.

Sites like Google, Bing, Baidu and other search engines, LOVE to index our site. Because we have a lot of inbound and outbound links.

While we have had spammers, and nasty bots crawling the site, and poking around (we ban them fast), we have not been the center of a targeted attack in recent months.

The sidebar with the kitty has been updated for April, we've already raised $690 dollars for this month's goal.

Many, many thanks to Piper for about 14 hours of hard work! We are up and running on a different server. Now all we have to do is acquire a new server to replace poor Magda and go through this again!

Nothing serious that we can tell, but we had some downtime while we recovered from a small database corruption. Let us know if you notice anything missing.

The site was down for far too long today. So you have until then to vote. I will try and get the winner's announcements up before 2 am Tuesday morning EST.

Hi Everyone,

For the last two days, I've been trying to get a test site setup for future BigCloset upgrades.

Probably going to the doctor in the morning. Please be good to each other.

Hugs,
Erin

Hey everyone!

So as the title of this blog reads, we are looking for programmers.

That's one big storm up in New England! We've got an inch and a half of snow on the ground here in Southern California from it!

Hugs,
Erin

As you can see in the Hatbox graphic on the side, I'm asking for $2000 in donations and income again for the month of February.

Kindle Hatbox

It got down to 18 degrees F here last night. The water main has frozen and we are without water for making coffee. Oh, what shall we do in the land of bottled water? :)

Hugs,
Erin

Wolfpacks have a hierarchy of respect, obligation and deference. At the top of this hierarchy are the Alpha Wolves, usually a mated pair but sometimes a single individual.

At least one of these ordinary tips will make your life easier...

http://shialabeowulf.tumblr.com/post/33670447154/99-life-hac...

First night this winter it actually got below freezing here and my furnace went out at 10 p.m. last night. I didn't get to sleep until the dog got under the covers with me about 2 a.m.