Here are my thoughts, rants, and so on. Its really not that relevant to anything, but every now and then I like to speak my piece.

• 24Sep 09

  Forum search update

  We released an update to the GameSpot forum search today. The changes were made to provide more reliable search results and make the forums perform a bit better.

  The searches are now running on the Sphinx search server. Sphinx is designed for full-text searches and is a perfect match for the forums. Because the searches are running on the Sphinx server they no longer cause general forum slowdowns when a large # of searches are done at once.

  If you are interested, there are a few tips & tricks you can now do to get more specific search results.

  The "|" character allows you to do an OR search. e.g., search for: mario | zelda

  The "+" character allows you to require a word to be part of the search. e.g., search for: (mario | zelda) +time

  If you surround your search term in quotes (") then it will search for that exact combined term. See the difference between: of legend and "of legend" You'll notice that The Legend of Zelda is not included in the second search.

  Good luck & good searching!

  • Posted Sep 24, 2009 11:26 am PT
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• 24Feb 09

  Game Collections Maintenance

  The game collections will be down for maintenance on Wednesday February 25th from 6am to 7am PT. You can still view your collections but you will not be able to add, track or make any changes during this time.
  • Posted Feb 24, 2009 5:46 pm PT
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• 26Aug 08

  mini-feed now updating more frequently

  mini-feed now updating more frequently (eom)
  • Posted Aug 26, 2008 2:28 pm PT
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