Thanks for reminding me of something.

Basically, there are a couple of corrupt threads on TA and I need to take the whole site down for a few hours and re-do the indicies in order to fix it. I completely forgot about how this affects search -- if you posted a new thread 2 weeks ago and search for it - you'll find it -- if you choose '1 month ago' then once it hits the corrupt thread(s) it dies and doesn't return anything else.

I'll fix that this weekend.

Also, regarding that other site -- they limit the number of results they return to 5000 - TA returns everything. It's not too much of a performance hit to do that.

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Originally posted by Swamper Basically, there are a couple of corrupt threads on TA and I need to take the whole site down for a few hours and re-do the indicies in order to fix it. I completely forgot about how this affects search -- if you posted a new thread 2 weeks ago and search for it - you'll find it -- if you choose '1 month ago' then once it hits the corrupt thread(s) it dies and doesn't return anything else.

i've noticed a problem recently.. the 'one year ago' option seems to barely return anything from less than a year ago, and in most cases gives me older stuff. this is what i got trying to search for all thread titles in MD with 'contest' in them using the 'one year ago (and newer)' option:



it dates back to june on page 2 is this at all related to the problem you described?

Fixed.

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there's one thing i noticed about the search function a few months back (example follows below):

if you do a search on "titles only" and the thread title has been altered by a mod (or user? don't know if this makes any difference) the search seems not to find it.

example: i was once searching for this thread:

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...?threadid=84817

the thread title clearly contains the word "auto" and is dated from 2003 (and also contains posts up to july 2007 as of now) but if i do a search on the german subforum for the word "auto" in the thread title it won't return that thread (whatever time i choose, whether it's "2003 only" or any other).

i suppose that this behaviour is related to the fact that the original title of the thread once was "Was für ne Karre fahrt ihr? Schon nen Unfall gehabt?" (the first post still contains this title) since i can find it using the keyword "karre" in "2003 only".

i don't have a precise idea how the data for the ta search is stored, but i think it should be possible to fix this some way. even if not, this could still be of help to others (if i'm correct).

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Originally posted by dj_macgyver if you do a search on "titles only" and the thread title has been altered by a mod (or user? don't know if this makes any difference) the search seems not to find it.

The problem here is that it is assumed that posts from a certain year will rarely ever have their titles/content edited. The search database for 2003 was created in Nov 2005 -- I haven't updated it since. However, I'll see about changing it to update once a month just to weed out old titles/deleted threads/posts/etc. Never thought of that.

Thanks.

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Search is working MUCH better now mate, thanks heaps!!

don't know what it is, but since nov 17th I only get search results until that date.

whatever I search for & whatever timefame I only get results until nov 17th.

is it only me ?

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Originally posted by trancekid is it only me ?

My fault - try again in an hour.

(somehow the nightly update was suspended)

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when do you plan to implement TA v2.0 search engine ?

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