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Main Area => General GS500 Discussion => Topic started by: Phaedrus on July 01, 2005, 04:32:16 PM

Title: Search Function Issues
Post by: Phaedrus on July 01, 2005, 04:32:16 PM
Does anyone else have problems using the site's search function?

I've noticed a few times when I try and do a search, I just get a bunch of nonsense results that have nothing to do with what I was searching for.

I've tried searching using "specific quotes", I've tried being logged in under my username, tried searching being a guest, all the same. I've tried clearing my cookies and leaving the site and coming back.

Anyone else have the same problem?  :dunno:
Title: Search Function Issues
Post by: scratch on July 01, 2005, 05:11:00 PM
Perhaps you could tell one of us what you are searching for and we can look it up for you. I'd offer, but it's 5 o'clock and I'm not allowed on the kid's computer at home. So, I'm offering this suggestion in hopes that a fellow good samaritan GS'er will search for you. Otherwise, if I don't get to sneak onto my kid's computer this weekend, you'd have to wait til Monday for me to search for ya.

Happy 4th of July!
Title: Search Function Issues
Post by: jeast on July 01, 2005, 05:23:35 PM
i agree.  the search function isn't the best
Title: Search Function Issues
Post by: Phaedrus on July 01, 2005, 05:24:25 PM
Thank you. But it doesn't seem to matter what I search for. Sometimes it will work, but most of the time it doesn't.

Who knows..maybe it is an "ID 10 T" error. THat is why I wanted to see if anyone else had the problem.
Title: Search Function Issues
Post by: weaselnoze on July 01, 2005, 05:28:54 PM
its just the software.  if u search tank it will give u any post with the word tank in it.  be it the title or the body of the post..
Title: Search Function Issues
Post by: Kerry on July 01, 2005, 06:16:46 PM
HERE (http://gstwins.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14409) is a similar topic.  (I dug it up again by searching for the word "prolific".  :mrgreen: )

John Bates' post makes a good point, especially since topic titles aren't always well-thought out.  Towards the bottom of the thread I posted a bunch of screen shots and observations about how the search system seems to work.  Maybe they will help?  :dunno:
Title: Search Function Issues
Post by: DarkCyDE on July 01, 2005, 06:40:39 PM
make sure if you are searching for many words at once to tie them together with AND or OR. unless you did that and are still seeing the same problem.