For ezboard users, Forum Find is ezboard's official category and keyword based community search feature. It is designed so you can find exactly the community you’re looking for with speed and accuracy. Use Forum Find to search for any number of the tens of thousands of active ezboard communities.
For ezboard administrators, the Forum Find search capability makes it simple for millions of ezboard users to find your community. To guarantee the best results, it pays to be Gold. Gold Communities are ranked higher than comparable Free and Trial communities. With Gold Community and Forum Find you'll be able to watch your traffic and membership soar!
Admins: Click here for instructions on how to list your community in Forum Find
A Forum Find search generates its results by looking at three important attributes: keyword/phrase relevance, community popularity and Gold status (whether or not the community is Gold).
To begin, Forum Find scans the keywords and name of every community in its database and assigns a relevance score for the words you’ve chosen. It then looks at the popularity of each community and ranks each one based the amount of recent activity – both recent posts and visits. Finally, Forum Find attaches an extra score to each Gold Community and no extra score for Free or Trial communities. For the results you see displayed in the search interface, Forum Find totals all three scores and the community with the highest overall score is listed first, the second highest score second, and so on.
Forum Find is as simple as it looks. Simply enter a keyword or short phrase and click find communities. All searching is case insensitive. Forum Find ignores common words such as “and”, “to”, “the”, etc.
Forum Find also supports advanced searches. Below is an explanation of the different types of searches you can do on Forum Find. Fine-tuning your searches will increase their accuracy and enable you to find the community you’re looking for with greater ease.
1. Single Keyword Search
Ex: Baseball
This will list all communities that match the word “baseball” in their keywords and community name.
2. Multiple Keywords Search
Ex: Star Wars
This will list all communities that match either “star wars”, “star” or “wars” in their keywords or community name but will rank those that match “star wars” the highest.
3. Exact Phrase Search
Ex: “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”
This will only list communities that match “harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban” exactly in their keywords or community name.
4. + Search
Ex: Classic +Cars
This will list all communities that match the word “cars” in their keywords or community name but will rank those that also match the word “classic” highest.
Ex: +Wine +Napa
This will only list communities that match both “wine” and “napa” in their keywords or community name, however they do not need to be an exact phrase match.
5. – Search
Ex: –Nature Photography
This will only list communities that match the word “photography” in their keywords or community name and also do not contain the word “nature”.
Ex: +“Star Wars” –RPG
This will only list communities that match the exact phrase “star wars” in their keywords or community name and also do not contain the word “rpg”.
