I am having problems with the search facility-am I alone?

hollydays

Used to find searching easily-now virtually no subject apart from very recent ones come up.Is this part of the wider problems with the site at the moment or am i just being thick? also user cp not working properly..

sra

hollydays wrote: »

Used to find searching easily-now virtually no subject apart from very recent ones come up.Is this part of the wider problems with the site at the moment or am i just being thick? also user cp not working properly..

Look carefully at the new defaults.

The drop-search above tells you:
"By default this only searches for posts
in the past week. For a deeper search
use the Advanced Search"

what it doesn't mention is that when you click through to the advanced search, it is defaulted to:
Find posts from a Week ago... and newer.
So you have to change that to any date.

hollydays

Thanks i just realised this change-but i still dont think it is working

Former_MSE_Antelo

The search default is now set to seven days to reduce the overall search load on the servers. If you require to search for older posts, please enter the Advanced search and select a different time limit under the "find posts from" drop down box.

Sorry if this change has caused inconvenience but as we get bigger, searches require more resources and take more time. The seven day search, as a standard, should provide users with the most updated posts instantly; and the option is still available to do more thorough searches for those looking for past information.

edda

hollydays wrote: »

Thanks i just realised this change-but i still dont think it is working

The default advanced search also only looks in the titles.
You might need to change it to search the content of the postings as well.

peter999

Also see MSE Martin's thread few below yours:

The Forum Search
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=401377

peter999