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bluemchen
bluemchen

May-21-2007 09:26

is it just me or does the search boards function really not work most of the time?

I've been trying with different phrases, words, etc - at the best I get 2 links maximum - 90% of the time, they search function can't find any threads at all, even I find more than 5 threads with the exact same topic or one that uses the word in it when searching manually.

am I doing something wrong here? Some magic word that needs to be typed (like please ;-)
I thought that it would maybe improve after I had subscribed but nothing changed.

thx bluemchen

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biggie528
biggie528
Lucky Stiff

May-21-2007 10:41

Maybe try making your search less specific? only use one word, sometimes the phrases aren't caught by the search engine.

AraLives
AraLives
Battered Shoe

May-21-2007 10:46

Nope, I've had the same problem lately. Just as an experiment I just typed in "factions" and got zero responses; "lucy" with one response, and "villain" and got two responses. I'm fairly sure that there's more than one post out there about Lucy....

Daphne Dangerfield
Daphne Dangerfield
Old Shoe

May-21-2007 12:14

Me too. Today I typed in "cairo" and got zero hits...

Sir Butcher De Vei
Sir Butcher De Vei
Well-Connected

May-21-2007 20:30

I havent been able to test and confirm this but I only noticed the problem with the search boards after the server had that rollback problem few weeks ago. Before that, the search feature worked just fine. Now, searching for a keyword shows up 1-2 results, and sometimes none at all.

And oh bluemchen, I hope you didnt just subscribe to search in the message boards lol, just kidding. =)

bluemchen
bluemchen

May-25-2007 04:25

nope sir butcher I didn't - luckly sleuth has more to offer than searching boards ;-)

and just like all the others I only ever tried single words anyway - it simply doesn't work at all, which is a shame, as the board's style (and the naming of topics) doesn't really help searching for information by hand either

Paranoid_Android
Paranoid_Android
Story Teller

May-25-2007 08:57

Yep I submitted a bug report the other days saying 'does not work'. That's about as expressive as I could get.

bluemchen
bluemchen

May-25-2007 09:01

thanx for that - i ocmpletely forgot about the bug report

Snoop977
Snoop977
Well-Connected

May-26-2007 12:25

I've found that doing an advanced search on Google works. I fill in the "Only return results from the site or domain" form with http://noir.playsleuth.com/map/cityhall/.

bluemchen
bluemchen

May-27-2007 06:10

thank you so much snoop - that really helps a lot!

ps: it'd still be great if the search function on the board worked though :-)


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