Mrs Mungo Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 The search function is acting really weird. For example, someone posted about breakfast ideas this morning. I searched using "migas" (without the quote marks) because I know most of my breakfast posts contain that word. But, nothing came up. I searched again using "ranchero" (again, without the quote marks) and tons of posts came up, most of them with the word "migas" also in them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 THANK YOU for working on this! Currently, Searches are driving me nuts. I will type in Disney and nothing comes up. I typed in Keuruig and then did a search for American Girl Dolls with the same results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Thanks for your work. It has improved. One thing that I used to do is search my own name every few weeks in case someone had mentioned me in a way that I wanted to follow up. These days nothing comes up when I search: maybe if my name is in a quoted section it's not searchable? Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joan in GE Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 Give the search feature a try now. I just implemented a new search. Search on the forums. Hi OtherJohn, (is there actually another John that works at PHP?) First, thank you for all your continued efforts! I feel a bit spoiled to expect things to be the way they were on a free service forum...but since you asked :-) Things are definitely better than a few days ago! But it seems that it doesn't search today's posts - or it just a bit delayed? For example, I searched "Joan" but the posts I made a little earlier today do not show up at the top of the list...though since I was posting on a thread I'd posted on earlier, it is farther down the list....I'm just confused how it is programmed... Thanks, Joan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldberry Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 The search tool is a more advanced search engine that indexes every 5 minutes. So there is a delay. After it is running a bit, I will work on increasing the re-index to a shorter time. I just need to watch the performance first. John I think there is still a problem. I just picked a random topic on the chat board (moving/pantry items) by Cajunrose that said 3pm today. I did a search for author cajunrose, and the most recent info seems to be from yesterday. I also clicked on cajunrose and then on find content, and again this does not show her post from today. I tried this for someone else and the same thing, not showing all posts. Not within 5 min, but some from far earlier today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie in VA Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 I am in EXACTLY the same situation! I used to search a lot, and could come up with a lot. Now, it is very odd, random, and scanty what comes up for searches. And I find I spend less time here, too, as a result... This! Maybe it's a good thing that I'm here less and tempted less. But I miss being able to search for what I need/want! And I miss my subscribed threads, but I'm sure I violated some maximum number on that, and I really should have saved them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 The search is still not coming up with old posts.the only posts that comes up with "migas" (no quotes in the search box) is the one from this thread. The only thread coming up with "Donner" (because I was trying to find the old Story of Us thread) is the one I made on the other search thread. I know there were about a gazillion posts on the old forum, but that is exactly what made it so useful to people. You guys are obviously working hard. Everything is improving a bit each day. Keep up the good work, just letting you know what is still not working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmos Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 The search is still not coming up with old posts.the only posts that comes up with "migas" (no quotes in the search box) is the one from this thread. The only thread coming up with "Donner" (because I was trying to find the old Story of Us thread) is the one I made on the other search thread. I know there were about a gazillion posts on the old forum, but that is exactly what made it so useful to people. You guys are obviously working hard. Everything is improving a bit each day. Keep up the good work, just letting you know what is still not working. Ditto the bolded! Mrs Mungo, what page were you on when you did the search? If you are in a thread and go to the search box at the top, it will search only that thread for your search term. There's a little grey box that says "this thread" or "forums" to show what is being searched. So if you happened to be in this thread when you did the search, only results from this thread would appear. I did a search on "migas" from the main forum page and got lots of results. Well, 17 anyway. Does that seem about right? I also did the search I've been testing -- "rybczynski" and did get all three threads I expected. So, definite progress! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Ditto the bolded! Mrs Mungo, what page were you on when you did the search? If you are in a thread and go to the search box at the top, it will search only that thread for your search term. There's a little grey box that says "this thread" or "forums" to show what is being searched. So if you happened to be in this thread when you did the search, only results from this thread would appear. I did a search on "migas" from the main forum page and got lots of results. Well, 17 anyway. Does that seem about right? I also did the search I've been testing -- "rybczynski" and did get all three threads I expected. So, definite progress! Ahhh, I am on the iPad, so not all of that shows up, but is probably working the same way. Will try again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Thanks, Cosmos. I was able to track down the threads by going out to the main page and searching from there. Because some threads were on the general forum and some in the curricula forums. I guess I was used to searching all of the forums being the default and having to use the "search this thread" in order to search more specifically. Going out to the main forum page definitely brings stuff up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
besroma Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Yes, When you use the search, make sure you set the search in to "Forums" to include everything. Otherwise it does what ever it is set to. For example, while on this thread, search is automatically set to "this topic". You can click "This topic" to select "forums" or multiple other options. Thank you, OtherJohn!! I have not done a lot of testing, but using the approach you outlined above, I am getting better search results than I did under the previous format. I am able to search using quotes, acronyms, and individual words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joan in GE Posted December 14, 2012 Author Share Posted December 14, 2012 Couple of things... When I search something in quotes - it doesn't show up highlighted as the two words - which makes finding it very painful in long threads... Also - I just searched "Classical Writing" in the high school forum and got some hits. But I wanted to find it by a particular poster and so went into the Advanced Search mode...Then I didn't get a single hit even though she had just posted yesterday about it - so there should have at least been one.... Thanks, Joan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joan in GE Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 I was trying to find an old thread - I have emails with the title of the thread and dates. When I put the title in with quotes - it comes back as 'no results'... What am I doing wrong? Here's the title "AP Credits didn't quite help like we thought" Thanks, Joan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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