Search issues

Former_MSE_Ian

Hi everyone,

There is currently an intermittent problem with Forum search. Some search results are not displaying. Just to say, this particular issue should hopefully be resolved this evening and search results displaying correctly tomorrow (6th October 2010).

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience.

Regards,
Ian

Amilucky?

MSE_Ian wrote: »

Hi everyone,

There is currently an intermittent problem with Forum search. Some search results are not displaying. Just to say, this particular issue should hopefully be resolved this evening and search results displaying correctly tomorrow (6th October 2010).

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience.

Regards,
Ian

Many thanks Ian appreciate the hard work that you do in ensuring the boards run smoothly at present when I click on a thread link I am getting the html text below with the actual thread at the bottom as you can imagine it takes a lot of scrolling down before I am able to see the post is this also related to the search problem ? this also seems to happen intermittently every now and again.

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Premier_2

MSE_Ian wrote: »

Hi everyone,

There is currently an intermittent problem with Forum search. Some search results are not displaying. Just to say, this particular issue should hopefully be resolved this evening and search results displaying correctly tomorrow (6th October 2010).

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience.

Regards,
Ian

Thanks Ian

The search facility seems to be back functioning ok today as promised. (i.e. all todays posts get listed)

BUT...

there appears to be a 'black hole' in the search results regarding any posts made over the past 4 or 5 days. (not including today, and presumably any days going forward)

Are you aware of this? Will it correct itself? Or is it something we will have to live with?
(As days go by, the effect to most users will become diminished anyway)

Amilucky?

Premier wrote: »

Thanks Ian

The search facility seems to be back functioning ok today as promised. (i.e. all todays posts get listed)

BUT...

there appears to be a 'black hole' in the search results regarding any posts made over the past 4 or 5 days. (not including today, and presumably any days going forward)

Are you aware of this? Will it correct itself? Or is it something we will have to live with?
(As days go by, the effect to most users will become diminished anyway)

(As days go by, the effect to most users will become diminished anyway)

not if the vast amount of duplicated post's are unreported!

comps that where searchable yesterday have disappeared again

so today's searchable comps may disappear tomorrow

lets hope it is fixed soon :eek:

Premier_2

Amilucky? wrote: »

...so today's searchable comps may disappear tomorrow ...

Have faith, Amilucky?

For the past few days (not including today), none of my searches were giving any recent posts. I mentioned it here yesterday:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=37226392&postcount=58

However, Ian says in his OP here that the issue was an "intermittent problem" so maybe you had more luck than me yesterday.

However, if Ian says it's now fixed from this morning, I certainly believe him Hopefully no more will be missed off the search.

All I was trying to point out is the apparent 'black hole' in the results over the period the "intermittent problem" was occurring, which appears to be from about 2 Oct until last night.

e.g. a search of your (or my) recent posts currently shows nothing during that time.

fermi

Premier wrote: »

All I was trying to point out is the apparent 'black hole' in the results over the period the "intermittent problem" was occurring, which appears to be from about 2 Oct until last night.

e.g. a search of your (or my) recent posts currently shows nothing during that time.

Same here for me. :undecided

Amilucky?

Premier wrote: »

Have faith, Amilucky?

For the past few days (not including today), none of my searches were giving any recent posts. I mentioned it here yesterday:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=37226392&postcount=58

However, Ian says in his OP here that the issue was an "intermittent problem" so maybe you had more luck than me yesterday.

However, if Ian says it's now fixed from this morning, I certainly believe him Hopefully no more will be missed off the search.

All I was trying to point out is the apparent 'black hole' in the results over the period the "intermittent problem" was occurring, which appears to be from about 2 Oct until last night.

e.g. a search of your (or my) recent posts currently shows nothing during that time.

Have just had a look at the Spinx search engine that MSE uses and it looks like something from "The Matrix" I just hope that the MSE techies have taken the right pill today! :rotfl: