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All searching in kurosearch is based on so-called tags. In that sense it is not like Google. With Google you can search for whole sentences or questions. In kurosearch you have to search for one of the predefined tags. Luckily, there are quite a lot of them.
You can find all of them at: rule34.xxx
The results you get when you click search are called posts. If you start a search without any tags, you will get all posts.
Number Of Results
In addition to the posts themselves you can also see how many posts matched your search. The count is located to the left immediately above the first post.
If your search did not match any posts that means you search for some tags that do not have any posts in common. You will also get a cute error message saying so.
Sorting results
Once you have searched, you can sort your results by using the selector above the first post. At the moment there are only two options available.
- Date
This is the default sorting. It will order the results in a way that newer results appear at the top of the search and older results at the bottom. This is useful if you want to see new posts.
- Score
This option will order posts according to the number of likes they received. Posts with more likes will be shown first. This is useful if you are interested in the most popular posts.
- Updated
Orders posts by when they were last update. More recent means higher up in the search
Filtering results
In addition to sorting kurosearch also support a simple form of filtering. Currently, only filtering by score is supported.
The filter selection is located at the top right of the first post
Tags
When you input something into the searchbar you will get some suggestions. These things are called tags. They will usually be presented like this.
A tag is characterised by four things.
- Name
- Type
- Count
- Modifier
Name
The name of the tag is what you actually search for. It is usually pretty descriptive and well defined. Oftentimes, there are multiple tags for the same thing though so it might take a bit of trial and error to find the best one for you.
Type
The type indicates what kind of tag it is. It is displayed in form of an icon right before the name of the tag. the possible types are the following.
- Artist
Target artists or content creators.
- Character
Indicates that the tag is targeting a character of some sort.
- Copyright
Targets a certain franchise or similar.
- Metadata
Tags of this type are information about the post itself and not the content.
- Supertag
Indicates that the tag is not a simple tag, but rather a collection of tags called a supertag.
Count
The count of a tag displays how many post are tagged with it.
For supertags the count shows how many tags are in it.
Modifier
In kurosearch tags can have modifiers that change how they influence your search. You can change the modifier directly in the searchbar. Intuitively, you would think like this: Picking a tag means posts in the results will have it, right? In kurosearch this is done with the include modifier.
The available modifiers are:
- Include (+)
This is the default modifier. Using it with tags will make the search include them. This means that all posts in the results will have every include tag on them. Use this modifier for all things that you definitely want to see.
Icon:Example: - Exclude (-)
The exclude modifier is subtractive. If you exclude a tag, the results will NOT have that tag. Even if a post would be included in your search otherwise, if it has one of your exclude tags on it, it will not be shown. Use this for all things that you dislike and don't want to see at all.
TIP: You can create a supertag with all your exclude tags so they are saved between site visits. That makes excluding your turnoffs really easy.
Icon:Example: - Optional (~)
The optional tags are the most complicated ones. When adding multiple optional tags, all results will include at least one of the optional tags. That means that optional tags only become effective once you have two of them. Optional tags are useful when there are multiple tags for the same thing or you are not searching for one specific thing but multiple instead.
To understand it better here is an example. If you search for the following tags...
...then all results will have at least one of the princesses in them, but not neccessarily all of them.
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