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connectedgeek | December 23, 2008 05:08 PM | in Mahalo Answers Community

Why can't I do a search for information within my Answer on Mahalo Answers?

I tried do a search "like your live blog" within the search box on Mahalo Answers with the Answers drop down selected. I know that this text is within my answer on the question: http://www.mahalo.com/answers/mahalo-answers-community/two-new-profile-features-open-questions-and-helpful-answers
Is this a feature that will be available in the future or can we only do searches for information within the actual question?

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BEST ANSWER chosen by asker | bmlhailstone | December 23, 2008 05:38 PM

That's a really good point, sometimes the answers will have more viable, searchable information than the question. In fact, if someone's question is What is a good digital camera? and all the answers have brand names, it will be way better for the site if the search engine finds all the answers. That way everyone searching D60 or Nikon or Sony or Cybershot will find it without just searching digital camera.

Then again, if they're searching for specific information on the D60, they might not get it through the question "Which camera is best?", unless the D60 answerer gave a very thorough answer(with sources/links). Which is really the big reason everyone should be providing sources to specific answers. But also the reason that Calcanis should trust the search engine and let it search the answers.

Then we can also search for answers that have swear words in them.

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Now I hope the Mahalo Team reads this! ;)

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