Seek and Ye Shall … Be Confused (quite possibly)
by Sufficiently Geeky
If you’ve been around the risqué members’ side for any length of time, you’ve probably heard us talking about working on a “real” Search Engine for the pay area here. If you’ve ever been a member of any other adult site, then it probably took you basically no time at all to figure out that we’re a bit odd in our approach. To really be successful, and therefore useful, a Members’ Search Function (If you use capitalized words, then it makes it seem really important, right?) must be able to accurately and quickly scan the words – emphasis on the word quickly (as you’ve seen twice now).
I promised not to wander too far into the technical, so let me just pose a question for you to consider before you completely ignore it and jump to the beautiful naked women at the bottom of the page. You all know how much we write around here. How many words do you think the database needs to keep track of over 17,586 pages (so far, including this one)? Suffice it to say that this was not a simple process, and as with many things we’ve tried over the years, we basically had to wait until the server technology caught up with what we were trying to do.
Being ahead of the curve isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, sometimes.
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