Searching Reviews

[rjiwrth]

Hello Tea Chatters!
I just received my shipment of Pu from Hou De. This will be my first experience with Pu. I would like to scan some reviews on the selection I ordered (with the help of Bill..thank-you). When I search TeaChat, the results are never specific to my search. I can spend hours looking for what I'm searching for. Could someone help me with this? Am I doing something wrong? Example: I searced "Yi Wu Cha Hwang" and came up with irrelevant posts. I also tried including 2007 Spring Xi-Zhi Hao "Yi Wu Cha Hwang". Again, nothing relevant. Also did Google and it was a loss as well. Here is what I ordered:

2007 Spring Xi-Zhi Hao "Yi Wu Cha Hwang" Cakes 1oz

2003 HK Henry Special-Ordered 7542 of MengHai, 1oz

1998 MengHai "Yieh Sheng Chiao Mu" Ching Beeng, 10g

2007 Jing Mei Tang "Si De" Cooked Cake, 400g

Thanks for any assistance!
Rebecca from Weston

[Geospearit]

The same thing has always happened with me. I get lots of irrelevant hits and 50 page threads that are impossible to search through (it always starts out on the first page... not the post where the search-term is listed). So yeah, sorry I can't help. I personally think it's just a bad search engine. Maybe someone else will chime in with the right way to use the teachat search engine.

You could always try the Half-Dipper blog. Hobbes has a lot of reviews posted. There are also a lot of other puerh blogs with reviews. The thing is that there are just so many cake releases these days so you may have trouble finding your particular cakes.

Best way to resolve the problem of no review is to try it and tell us what you think

[hop_goblin]

Hey, I reviewed the Henry HK and Xizhi How Spring Yiwu on my blog if interested.

[silverneedles]

to search teachat i use google like this:

site:teachat.com intitle:thread_title_whatever_youwant
(which requires that a thread title was created using the words youre looking for)

without intitle: it will search inside the text & titles of all posts on site teachat.com

[Drax]

You can use google as explained above, or you can use Adagio's search engine, but instead of searching "Yi Wu Cha Hwang" you must search "Yi and Wu and Cha and Hwang".

Seriously.

If you just search "Yi Wu Cha Hwang," you get any post that has just one of those words somewhere in it. If you put "and" in between all the words you want, then you'll only get the posts where all 4 of those words show up.

Hope that helps...!

[wyardley]

Also keep in mind that romanization systems differ, so just because Hou De spells it this way doesn't mean others will. And of course, it's simply possible that no one has posted to teachat about a lot of these specific cakes.

[rjiwrth]

Hey, I reviewed the Henry HK and Xizhi How Spring Yiwu on my blog if interested.

I knew it was somewhere! More like right in front of my eyes! Thanks, Bill.
Thanks to everyone for the other helpful guidance!

Rebecca

[Salsero]

you must search "Yi and Wu and Cha and Hwang".

If you use the Search function that is on the upper left, next to FAQ and under the TeaChat, banter and wisdom device, you can specify "look for all terms" and you can specify posts rather than threads.