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 ("...")

• Exact search. Allows a search term to include spaces. Everything placed inside a pair of quotation marks is treated as one, whole term (wildcard characters are still interpreted as wildcards).

Question Mark (?), Underscore (_)

• Wildcard. Can match any single character.

Asterisk (*), Percentage Sign (%)

• Wildcard. Can match any sequence of characters (including none).

Subtraction Sign (-)

• Exclusion. When placed before a term, prevents search results from including that term.

Examples

comic*xo*4

The above search would match anything that starts with "comic" and is (eventually) followed by "xo" which is also (eventually) followed by a "4".

At the absolute minimum, this search could match "comicxo4". It could also match "Comic XO 2008 Vol 24" or "Comic XO 2thousand ten Vol.41" or any number of other strings.

"comic aun" -2007 -2008

For a default search including both titles and tags, this will match anything that has "comic" followed by a space followed by "aun" (the exact quoted string) in the tags or in the title but that doesn't also have "2007" or "2008" in the tags or in the title.

The matches for "comic aun" and "2007" or "2008" do not both have to occur in the title or in the tags; if "comic aun" is a tag on a gallery that has "2008" in the title, that gallery would not show up in the results of this search.

comic -"comic aun*2008"

This will match anything that has "comic" in the tags or in the title but that doesn't also have "comic" followed by a space followed by "aun" (eventually) followed by "2008" in the tags or in the title.

Search Limitations

There are a few miscellaneous limitations to searches.

• Any term under 3 characters - besides "3d" - will be ignored unless a namespace is specified.
• A maximum of 8 terms will be used to search. Any extra terms will be ignored.
• Searches with only exclusions are not permitted.
• If tag searching is enabled, common terms such as "the" will be ignored unless they are made part of a larger term (either by using quotes or a wildcard character).

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.

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