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sevenload’s search function is a vital feature that sevenloaders need in order to have a good overview of the surplus of photots/videos on sevenload. It’s already possible to combine more than one word/term with another. In order to really filter out the best search results it’s often necessary to use not just one search term, but rather a combination of at least two.

I’m going to use an example from the Web 2.0 scene, BarCamp Hamburg, as a means of demonstrating the various possibilites for searches which can be done on sevenload- and what sort of results they return:

• A search for “barcamp” only, produces an immense amount of results in which the word barcamp is used as a tag for the photos and videos. Sorting the results by date is a helpful way to see what the newest uploaded photos/videos are.
• If you’re looking for a particular BarCamp, such as the BarCamp Frankfurt or Hamburg, would usually enter “barcamp frankfurt”. The results for such a search is a mix of the tags “barcamp” and “frankfurt”- however, a real mix of the two words will not be generated.
• A search for “+barcamp +hamburg” reduces the results to a minimum number of photos and videos which are linked to both tags.
• Likewise, it’s possible to use an asterisk (”*” - the star) in order to receive so-called “wildcard” results for the search. For example, a search for “*camp*” will return results with photos/videos taged with things such as “barcamp”- basically words with the word camp included in them.

It’s possible that some of the functionality of our searches were not easily/well understood by some users. Therefore, we have decided to continue to work on optimizing sevenload’s search functions because it’s really important to us that sevenloader’s not only understand our features, but that they find them useful. Community feedback is therefore also very important to us (as it always has been) for us to better enhance the site.