mirabillis Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 Does search still not work? Google search also barely works anymore, bears little fruit. I used to spend hours researching everything under the sun and now there's little indexed for me to search. I hate that I can't search all the old threads. Will this ever be fixed? I find myself on WTM much less b/c it is so cumbersome to find anything! That and I get signed out all the time - and then when signing in, I'm kicked to the WTM start page and more often than not, I just decide it's not worth posting anyway. Frustrating! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domestic_engineer Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 I'm wondering this too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domestic_engineer Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 @OtherJohn Are we allowed to search from here yet? The big red header bar is enough to stop me from using the site's search function. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirabillis Posted May 22, 2018 Author Share Posted May 22, 2018 same here. i still use google, but i did pre-site change anyway as it got me better results. but google search doesn't work. examples: acellus site:forums.welltrainedmind.com i get 3 posts. there are NOT only 3 posts that mention acellus pah aphug site:forums.welltrainedmind.com i get 2 posts. not even one i penned a year ago IS google search not working as your pages are not indexed? will this get fixed? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirabillis Posted May 26, 2018 Author Share Posted May 26, 2018 so will google search no longer work? Is it b/c your pages have new URLs and have not been re-indexed by google? i see your search works better now. i will try that. i am just used to using google search and site:forums.welltrainedmind.com and really like the format of what i find. any thoughts? thanks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cintinative Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 google search is still not working properly because the tags are not working. So, for example, if I search "career exploration" and forums.welltrainedmind.com I will get a link that is supposedly to all threads with that tag but there is nothing there in Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cintinative Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 otherjohn, tags are not working on this site's search either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbgrace Posted June 15, 2018 Share Posted June 15, 2018 Will google search ever work properly again? I used that all the time. As someone said previously, I barely get any threads dealing with topics I search. I didn't even get a hit on a thread from a few weeks ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
counselinggirl Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Google search still not working ? Having a hard time with forum search as well. Any updates? Thank you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 The forum search gives results, but when I open one result and then try to go back to the list, it gives me an error message, and makes me do the search all over again. So frustrating. ? nothing works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 On 8/31/2018 at 11:52 PM, Roadrunner said: The forum search gives results, but when I open one result and then try to go back to the list, it gives me an error message, and makes me do the search all over again. So frustrating. ? nothing works. If you are doing the search on a computer where this is possible, I've found it easiest to use the right click function to open up a new tab for each thread I want to read. (It is harder to do without a mouse, but it is possible.) Instead of clicking on the thread directly, right click and choose "open in a new tab." (Holding your finger on a link on a touchscreen also sometimes works.) This way, you can keep opening the threads without redoing the search. I've found the forum search to be a LOT better than the old days. I do miss the Google search function because it was more accurate for phrases and keywords, but I'm batting .450 for thread searches lately. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 7 minutes ago, RootAnn said: If you are doing the search on a computer where this is possible, I've found it easiest to use the right click function to open up a new tab for each thread I want to read. (It is harder to do without a mouse, but it is possible.) Instead of clicking on the thread directly, right click and choose "open in a new tab." (Holding your finger on a link on a touchscreen also sometimes works.) This way, you can keep opening the threads without redoing the search. I've found the forum search to be a LOT better than the old days. I do miss the Google search function because it was more accurate for phrases and keywords, but I'm batting .450 for thread searches lately. John seems to have fixed this problem. google search though doesn’t work at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 (edited) Is there a robot.txt file or forum configuration option that prevents search engines from indexing the site? Google barely returns any results when I use it to search the forums. Also, is there a way to make the forum search return threads instead of posts? If a thread has 15 posts in it that contain my search term, I get that same thread 15 times in the search results. Edited September 26, 2018 by silver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 On 9/1/2018 at 4:33 AM, OtherJohn said: Ok, I think I know what is happening. We need to make the throttle less touchy so you don't get the restriction so much. I will work on this shortly. Whatever you did fixed the problem for a while but it’s back now. I open the result from a search and can’t go back because it is telling me I have to wait for 9 seconds between searches. Essentially after looking at something I searched, I need to do an entire new search to look at a second result. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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