Search isn't searchin' so well anymore

[Mark_Everson]

Hi All:

I'm having some problems with searching the Clash forums. We have numerous times discussed issues that should have the string "time scale" in the threads.

I searched in the Clash forum only, with time setting anytime, on the string "time scale" and only got a few very recent threads. As an example of things it should have found but didn't, it failed to find that string in the third quote block of the first post in the A changing game turn length thread. In that block it says:

I think FE we can leave the player in control of the time scale as you suggest, so you can have "realistic" wars. But they'd have to be infrequent, or you'd never be able to finish the game!

I'm sure I could find by hand several other threads the search is failing to find. Any wisdom on a workaround?

PS, someone should vote for me as outstanding mod, or my itty bitty feelings will be hurt.

Thanks in advance,

[ixnay]

I believe they reworked the search index to try and save the server under the hight ptw load a month or so ago. Some threads are not indexed. I would think that it would be a good idea to fix this soon.

[Mark_Everson]

Thanks ixnay, now that you mention it I recall reading something about that a ways back. . .

[Straybow]

vBulletin search never has been able to find its ass with both hands tied behind its back…

[Mark_Everson]

Hey Straybow:

Yeah, but its tactile - posterior identification capability has declined radically since the summer. . . I think Saddam H. is clearly to blame.

[Apocalypse]

The search use to be fairly good. Frequently I'd search for my name to see who was talking about me in forums I don't normally go it. Someone suggested we all do it, or called people who did it vain. I forget. Anyway, I thought it was a good idea so I started doing it.

[ixnay]

I do that on all forums that I visit.

[DrSpike]

It's like self-googling........always happens within the academic community anyway.

[Apocalypse]

Yes, I am the second most famous Will Moeller according to Google. I just have to beat out this college basketball player, which shouldn't be too hard.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Apocalypse
Yes, I am the second most famous Will Moeller according to Google.

i'm the most close thing of the world you can get to a real Giannopoulos

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=Giannopoulos&btnG=Froogle+Search

[H Tower]

you're obssessed with froogle mark, did you know that?

[spartak]

Did you know that if you searched for Ming and Case Closed you get only 22 results.

The search is clearly broken.

[Dis]

I'm trying to find an old off-topic thread from a few months ago. Only 2 results.

Anyone know if the search feature is going to be fixed?

[spartak]

No idea - I think its a bandwidth saving issue so it might be never.

[Sirotnikov]

Mark, in my endless ME threads I had to find some quote by Cybergnu.

I was eventually forced to find the quote manually, going over hundreds of pages on dozens of ME threads in the recent 6 months.

Why?

Because the earliest threads the search would show were from the end of October.

The post I wanted appeared finally in the early middle of october.

Argh.