Gallery Searching

Galleries may be searched using various criteria. Searches may only be performed once every 3 seconds.

Search Terms

Search terms should be separated by spaces.

Operators

• Quotation marks (" ")
  • Allows for exclusive searching. All terms placed inside a pair of quotation marks are treated as one keyword, forcing string searches (the whole term in the order given, not its individual parts).
• Question marks (?)
• Underscores (_)
  • Act as wild cards. Will match any character in a keyword.
• Asterisks (*)
• Percentage signs (%)
  • Act as wild cards. Will match any character sequence in a search string.
• Subtraction signs (-)
  • Excludes the terms that immediately follow them from search results.

Title vs Tag Matches

The search engine finds matches differently for gallery titles and for tags.

• For titles: the search engine may attempt a match anywhere, even in the middle of a word.
  • So a search for berry could match a title "Berry Blue" or "Strawberry".
• For tags: the search engine will only attempt a match on the whole tag (from the start of the tag) or on a word in the tag (from the beginning of the word).
  • So a search for berry could match a tag "berry blue", but not "strawberry".
  • A search for I*berry or st*berry would match the tag I My Me Strawberry Eggs, because the former matches the whole tag and the latter matches a word in the tag; but the search my*berry would not, since that string cannot match the whole tag or an individual word.

Examples

comic*xo*4? would match everything with a title/tag starting with "comic" followed by any sequence of chars (including none) followed by "xo" followed by another any-char-sequence followed by a 4 and a wildcard (like 40, 41, 42 and so on)
 
"comic aun" -2007 -2008 would match "comic aun" (but not permutations of this), that does not also contain 2007 or 2008 in the title or tag
 
comic -"comic aun*2008" would match "comic", excluding everything titled/tagged as "comic aun" followed by any-char-sequence followed by 2008

Disallowed Searches

• Any terms under 3 characters besides "3d" will be ignored, if no namespace is specified.
• Any keywords in excess of 8 will be ignored. Only the first 8 will be used.
• If tag searching is enabled:
  • Common terms such as "the" will be ignored unless put into quotes with another term.
  • Searches with only exclusions are not permitted.

Advanced Options

Search Gallery Name

Enabled by default.

Search Gallery Tags

Enabled by default.

Search Description

Enables searching the text of descriptions made by the galleries' uploaders.

Search Uploader Name

Search Torrent Filenames

Only Show Galleries With Torrents

Search Low-Power Tags

(Must have Search Gallery Tagging enabled.)

Enables searching tags that have less than 10 mod power

Search Downvoted Tags

(Must have Search Gallery Tagging enabled.)

Enables searching tags that have less than 10 mod power, including those that are suppressed by downvotes. This automatically disables the above option because it includes its results.

Show Expunged Galleries

Enables searching expunged galleries. This does NOT enable the searching of removed, private, or deleted galleries.

Minimum Rating

Enables searches for galleries that have a minimum star rating (2-5).

File Search

Enables comparison searches against a given image file. Files to be compared must be uploaded from the user's computer and can only be done 1 at a time. Operates by taking the SHA-1 hash of the uploaded file and comparing it to the database of all images in the E-Hentai Galleries. The uploaded file is NOT stored on the servers. File searches can be combined with other searching options after the files has been uploaded.

• Use Similarity Scan
  • Enabled by default.
  • Searches for non-exact matches, typically of different resolutions, sharpness, or quality.
  • If the uploaded image is detected as being monotone (e.g. black and white) then only exact matches are permitted.
• Only Search Covers
  • Will only compare the first image of the galleries to the uploaded image.
• Show Expunged
  • Enables searching expunged galleries' images. This does NOT enable searching of removed, private, or deleted galleries' images.

Search by Hash by URL

Users may also search via URL if they already know the SHA-1 hash with which to search.

Simply enter the URL with the hash like this:

http://g.e-hentai.org/?f_shash=Sha-1_Hash_Here

See also

• Making Requests
• How To Search For Galleries