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Posted by Munchy on Apr-10-2006 20:46:

Is it just me...

Or is the TA search function the most useless thing ever?

I'm trying to find an old post and after not finding ANY results, I just typed in "Search for "what" in all open forums" and it found NOTHING!?

Posted by all-nite-freak on Apr-10-2006 20:46:

yes

Posted by StanVoid on Apr-10-2006 20:46:

it's not working properly ATM

Posted by Zoso on Apr-10-2006 20:49:

So that's why I couldn't find anything related to my cartridge tracking weight question! Zing!

Posted by websley on Apr-10-2006 20:58:

Teh is dead, use g00gle. (It already worked better than the TA-search a year ago )

Posted by Googooly on Apr-10-2006 21:01:

Ask jeebez, he helps alot of people.

Posted by Ygrene on Apr-10-2006 21:04:

quote:
Originally posted by Googooly
Ask jeebez, he helps alot of people.

Is that Jeeves or Jebus or did they mate and have a kid??? Man, if they did that's one smart kid!

Posted by Googooly on Apr-10-2006 21:05:

quote:
Originally posted by Ygrene
Is that Jeeves or Jebus or did they mate and have a kid??? Man, if they did that's one smart kid!

I don't know, its getting very complicated now...

Posted by Swamper on Apr-10-2006 21:30:

Re: Is it just me...

quote:
Originally posted by Munchy
Or is the TA search function the most useless thing ever?

I'm trying to find an old post and after not finding ANY results, I just typed in "Search for "what" in all open forums" and it found NOTHING!?

Useless searches (such as your example) will obviously come up with nothing since the results will serve little purpose. There are certain words that are ignored and never indexed, like 'what'.

If you want help why not explain what you're trying to find and what results you believe you should be seeing (and aren't)

From experience, those that say the search sucks aren't even using it properly - there was an issue earlier in the week but it was only recently drawn to my attention - if that's where you ran into problems I apologize, but, it can't get fixed if I don't know it's broken. I'll check again - usually if any issues happen it is at backup time (5am) when the search tables are re-done.

Edit: Yup, it messed up, I'll fix it. I blame jp, his is the first post that fails on import.

INSERT INTO post VALUES (5931971,84817,'jp',2595,'',1143967683,0,'N�chtste Monat mal neue Felgen kaufen. Nat�rlich gold. Das wird di
e 5. Satz, also f�r jede Gelegenheit die richtige Schuhe ',1,1,0,1,0,0);

lol.

Posted by arcadia190 on Apr-10-2006 21:39:

Re: Re: Is it just me...

quote:
Originally posted by Swamper
Useless searches (such as your example) will obviously come up with nothing since the results will serve little purpose. There are certain words that are ignored and never indexed, like 'what'.

If you want help why not explain what you're trying to find and what results you believe you should be seeing (and aren't)

From experience, those that say the search sucks aren't even using it properly - there was an issue earlier in the week but it was only recently drawn to my attention - if that's where you ran into problems I apologize, but, it can't get fixed if I don't know it's broken. I'll check again - usually if any issues happen it is at backup time (5am) when the search tables are re-done.

Edit: Yup, it messed up, I'll fix it. I blame jp, his is the first post that fails on import.

INSERT INTO post VALUES (5931971,84817,'jp',2595,'',1143967683,0,'N�chtste Monat mal neue Felgen kaufen. Nat�rlich gold. Das wird di
e 5. Satz, also f�r jede Gelegenheit die richtige Schuhe ',1,1,0,1,0,0);

lol.
hello swamper...well thx for the info..cuz i didnt know how to use the search properly either...yesterday i was searching for user and i put theresa and nothing appeared

Posted by StanVoid on Apr-10-2006 21:42:

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quote:
Originally posted by arcadia190
hello swamper...well thx for the info..cuz i didnt know how to use the search properly either...yesterday i was searching for user and i put theresa and nothing appeared

stalker

Posted by jdat on Apr-10-2006 21:51:

quote:
Originally posted by Googooly
Ask jeebez, he helps alot of people.

ask jeeves just retired not long ago !

Posted by Swamper on Apr-10-2006 21:52:

Ok, search will be up and running ok again within 20 mins - yearly searches work but time relative ones (2 weeks/3 months/etc.) do not.

Technical explanation of what happened: the script file run at night that checks for a certain string to replace could not find it - reason being that MySql changed the quoting structure around the sql statements so my custom scripts did not find what was expected. I fixed my end so now all will be peachy again.

Posted by websley on Apr-10-2006 21:53:

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Posted by Swamper on Apr-10-2006 21:54:

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quote:
Originally posted by websley
Today I tried Arcadia190 in the search, does this make me a stalker too?

BTW, it didn't work

It's faster to search for all posts by a user by going to their profile and clicking the link on the top right

Posted by arcadia190 on Apr-10-2006 22:07:

i still dunno how to use the search...but i remember i used it once...and now it doesnt work swamper...what happened?

Posted by tubularbills on Apr-10-2006 22:31:

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quote:
Originally posted by StanVoid
stalker

hey! that was supposed to be my job!

Posted by websley on Apr-10-2006 22:36:

quote:
Originally posted by arcadia190
i still dunno how to use the search...but i remember i used it once...and now it doesnt work swamper...what happened?

You typed in "Neo", and now you're banned from the search!

Posted by itsamemario on Apr-11-2006 00:04:

Re: Is it just me...

Its you.

Posted by kadomony on Apr-11-2006 04:04:

we all know who broke the search.
OH NOES!!!11 SAVES ME JOSH!

Posted by Sir. Lunchalot on Apr-11-2006 10:08:

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quote:
Originally posted by Swamper
I blame jp, his is the first post that fails on import.

INSERT INTO post VALUES (5931971,84817,'jp',2595,'',1143967683,0,'N�chtste Monat mal neue Felgen kaufen. Nat�rlich gold. Das wird di
e 5. Satz, also f�r jede Gelegenheit die richtige Schuhe ',1,1,0,1,0,0);

lol.

ROFL! - He`s talking about getting new rims (golden ones) for his Subaru next month...