This Forum's Search Sucks.
As of just a few weeks ago, the Search for this forum is consistently horrible.
Look at this post of mine.
Now do a standard forum search for Foucault, Foucault*, Foucault's, Pendulum, etc. using "any date" "search all open forums" "search entire posts."
It won't come up. I can hardly find anything anymore, and in other posts, both other users and I have mistakenly posted that the forums have been whittled down. But it's not that. The old posts are there, they're just nearly impossible to find.
Oh, BTW: images in AI articles are still incompatible with Camino and Firefox. Come on, guys, that's so Microsoft. WTF?
--B
Look at this post of mine.
Now do a standard forum search for Foucault, Foucault*, Foucault's, Pendulum, etc. using "any date" "search all open forums" "search entire posts."
It won't come up. I can hardly find anything anymore, and in other posts, both other users and I have mistakenly posted that the forums have been whittled down. But it's not that. The old posts are there, they're just nearly impossible to find.
Oh, BTW: images in AI articles are still incompatible with Camino and Firefox. Come on, guys, that's so Microsoft. WTF?
--B
Comments
Originally posted by bergz
Oh, BTW: images in AI articles are still incompatible with Camino and Firefox. Come on, guys, that's so Microsoft. WTF?
I don't know what's wrong with you/your browser, but AI images work fine in Firefox for me. Make sure Firefox isn't blocking images from Appleinsider.com
Originally posted by mynamehere
I don't know what's wrong with you/your browser
That's nice.
Nope, I have no sites blocking anything. I have tried allowing AI as an exception and that doesn't work either. Only happens with AI.
I have also tried ctrl-click-->View Image and I get
400 Bad Request
Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request.
I'm using Deer Park 1.5.
--B
Originally posted by bergz
Look at this post of mine.
Now do a standard forum search for Foucault, Foucault*, Foucault's, Pendulum, etc. using "any date" "search all open forums" "search entire posts."
It won't come up.
--B
All of those search terms work fine for me. Select the radio button "Show as posts".
Originally posted by lundy
All of those search terms work fine for me. Select the radio button "Show as posts".
Changing this button seems to have worked in this case. And while I still don't understand why that button would cause me to get different results, Search is still not working well for me.
Here I have a post with the term "pooped", however I cannot find it using any combination of settings in the search.
When I do a search for "longhorn*" it shows me 23 posts and 10 different threads. Total. Is that right? This happens to me with Camino, Firefox, Safari all running on 10.3.9.
I would very much appreciate some help in these two regards (the search and the images). If it is in fact my machine, is there something I can do?
--B
Originally posted by bergz
I would very much appreciate some help in these two regards (the search and the images). If it is in fact my machine, is there something I can do?
The search wouldn't have anything to do with your machine since that's all handled by the AI server, and i doesn't matter what platform/browser is being used to access it. When I use Firefox, I'm using Windows (I use Safari on the Mac), which I suppose could have something to do with it.
Originally posted by mynamehere
The search wouldn't have anything to do with your machine since that's all handled by the AI server, and i doesn't matter what platform/browser is being used to access it. When I use Firefox, I'm using Windows (I use Safari on the Mac), which I suppose could have something to do with it.
This is very strange, and like I say, I get the same search results on 3 browsers. Haven't tried IE, though.
--B
Originally posted by bergz
I would very much appreciate some help in these two regards (the search and the images). If it is in fact my machine, is there something I can do?
Bueller? Mods?
--B
No response from the forum gurus may just be because they can't find your post.
Doing so will mean downtime.
Originally posted by audiopollution
The forum needs to be re-indexed.
Doing so will mean downtime.
OK. Thanks. You too, Curio.
Hey, why don't you guys reindex when the site's inaccessible, Oh, I don't know, in about 12 days?
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Originally posted by bergz
OK. Thanks. You too, Curio.
Hey, why don't you guys reindex when the site's inaccessible, Oh, I don't know, in about 12 days?
--B
It's a good thought.
Today I entered "finder" without quotes as a query and got 20 post results in 9 threads.
AI is no longer a valid knowledge base. I can no longer troubleshoot any problems without opening up a new thread. This causes multiple threads to be created on the same topic and tires the AI faithful. I know that I am not the only user who is fed up with this situation. You've had plenty of time to reindex the forum.
Please do something to fix this glaring blot on this forum.
--B
5 posts in 4 threads, all in 2006.
--B
0 results... as threads, as posts, inside threads, or titles only... all permutations give no result.
I started the Exploration thread in AO (and a Mars thread - which only shows 4 unrelated results from PO??).
Neither (multi-page, 100+ response threads) show in search.
The results page does have ads though.
Nice to know what's important here.
"Jaguar" shows up in one post.
The "WTC" is nearly forgotten, sadly, as it only shows up in one PO post.
I will periodically keep you mods updated on the results of my continued investigation into this matter.
Sorry about that, Curio. Saturn was a swell planet while it lasted.
--B
fwiw, bergz, I realized the search wasn't working when I searched for a post I made on Foucault's Pendulum as well. Eerie.
"Wozniak" = 0 posts in 0 threads.
"Quicksilver" = 0 posts in 0 threads.
"creature speakers" = 0 posts in 0 threads.
709: you're freaking me out...
--B