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How about allowing us to search for mahalo usernames as well as search terms in Mahalo Answers?

Today I was posting a comment and thought to myself "It would be nice to link to a previous question related to this comment".

But it ended up taking to long to find the previous question.

A solution could be to allow searching for not only the terms in the question, but also the users who wrote, answered and commented on the question.

So a search like "@robbrown canada" would return any questions containing the term "canada" where @robbrown asked, answered or commented.
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buddawiggi buddawiggi
 
 July 04, 2009 10:59 PM
Another great idea @briansan. The searching for content related questions would be greatly improved with another fine tuning tool like a "user+content" search available.
If you keep having these great ideas and eventually they are implemented, searching your profile we would find the creation of a new Mahalo... Mahalo9.0.

Keep up the great work.
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soundboy soundboy
 
July 04, 2009 11:15 PM
Yeah I think that would be a nice feature to be able to search for post bu user name. Right now you can click on their profile to see their recent posts, but a search function would help find older posts.

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starry2790... starry2790...
 
July 04, 2009 11:20 PM
I think that would be a great idea and also have a section that tells you which friends or fans are online. This way we can get or give answers more quickly.

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easyeboy easyeboy
 
July 05, 2009 08:31 AM
Good suggestion, and it might be something you might want to contact Mahalo about. Try reaching out to them at contact@mahalo.com.

You can do a search like this on Google.

site:mahalo.com (add username here) + (topic of search here)

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brian san brian san
 
July 05, 2009 11:16 AM
Thanks @easyeboy,
I kind of figured there was already an expert solution!

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morriss003 morriss003
 
July 05, 2009 09:07 AM
I've always thought that this would be useful. Once someone asked a question and I tried to find an answer that nushka had given about the same subject. It was impossible. I couldn't even find nushka.

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janakan janakan
 
July 05, 2009 12:26 PM
Brilliant idea :)

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jkepler jkepler
 
July 05, 2009 04:55 PM
You can already search by username, can't you? I know it's not username+keyword, and that's what you meant, but I did just type in "brian san" and results came up.

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brian san brian san
 
July 05, 2009 05:01 PM
Currently, it will currently find any questions where the user name is in the text, but not where the user asked, answered or commented on the question.

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emilyjones emilyjones
 
July 05, 2009 09:09 PM
Very helpful idea! I know we have all had situations when we have been searching for a post by a particular person, but can't quite remember what the precise subject of the post was...

This nifty little feature would definitely alleviate some search stress.

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juanvascon... juanvascon...
 
July 07, 2009 08:46 PM
That's a great suggestion. I'm in-house at Mahalo right now and will suggest that to the development team. You might see a stronger search feature in future implementations of the site.

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