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Forum search doesn't work properly
Posted by: Arrow
Date: December 19, 2008 04:13AM

Has something been changed because it used to work well.

Now I'm finding that terms I know I have personally posted in the past come up "No results were found" despite trying all the search permutations.

Remove Redirects

is an example. I have just posted it now in response to a question but I know i have also posted it a couple of times in the past [remove redirects is a bookmarklet]

remove link trackers is another I know I have posted



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/19/2008 04:14AM by Arrow.

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Re: Forum search doesn't work properly
Posted by: Arrow
Date: December 19, 2008 06:58PM

I would appreciate some feedback please.

I can't even find

Remove Redirects


as posted above in this thread

I've tried:
all words / any words /exact phrase

All forums/general

any date/last 30 days etc

show as threads/ show as messages

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Re: Forum search doesn't work properly
Posted by: desga2
Date: December 19, 2008 08:07PM

You can search for "remove" or "redirects" or "bookmarklet" or for your nick name " Arrow" in all dates and all forum.

K-Meleon in Spanish

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Re: Forum search doesn't work properly
Posted by: Arrow
Date: December 20, 2008 10:38AM

Thanks for the response desga2

No result showing for redirects prior to 7 weeks ago posted by myself - I posted about it at least a couple of times 1-4 years ago,
Likewise old mentions of bookmarklet not showing up

There's much more than that missing from search results.

I didn't use to have to call up my own posts and trawl through pages of them to find something and often info I have in mind isn't in one of my posts it is posted by someone else in a thread I have written in.

The fact that there is an option for exact phrase would indicate that exact phrase can be sought.

Something is different - search here is not as efficient as it used to be.

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Re: Forum search doesn't work properly
Posted by: JamesD
Date: December 20, 2008 12:21PM

I did not have any trouble with a search on 'redirects'. I got five hits.





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/20/2008 12:27PM by JamesD.

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Re: Forum search doesn't work properly
Posted by: Arrow
Date: December 20, 2008 05:50PM

Thank you JamesD

However as I mentioned above no results are showing for redirects prior to 7 weeks ago posted by myself - older ones are missing
Likewise old mentions of bookmarklet not showing up.


I've manually trawled through some old posts of mine

Here is an example:

search for bookmarklets - and you will see no results older than one year despite searching for All dates.

Now open this link from September 2006
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?1,42327,42327#msg-42327

post#1 contains the term bookmarklets
post#2 contains the term remove redirects

It is happening so often on stuff i know is on the forum and i notice now that many searches aren't going back further than 1yr when set to all dates



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/20/2008 06:11PM by Arrow.

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