Search - does it actually work at all? (merged)

flea72

sometimes when doing a search, if there are too many answers, it stops the search - then in tiny writing in the header bar tells you this - although it is hard to see - i thought the search facility wasnt working either, until i noticed this, and now understand why it wasnt bringing anything up

D.A.

Glad wrote:

are you clicking on search on the bar below your name or on 'search this forum' ???

The "Search" in the menu bar, between New Posts and Quick Links. Have used both the dropdown and Advanced Search for things which I know are definitely there, and get no results from either.

Also tried using Search This Thread on this thread for Budapest, and *still* got no results. What is happening here???

sra

D.A. wrote:

The "Search" in the menu bar, between New Posts and Quick Links. Have used both the dropdown and Advanced Search for things which I know are definitely there, and get no results from either.

Also tried using Search This Thread on this thread for Budapest, and *still* got no results. What is happening here???

As I said in the post above, you can find things with google: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aforums.moneysavingexpert.com+Budapest&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

but that's hardly ideal.

Just type in site:forums.moneysavingexpert.com
then the word you want to search for

Glad

I just tried budapest in search and came up with 17 hits

trafalgar_2

D.A. wrote:

The "Search" in the menu bar, between New Posts and Quick Links. Have used both the dropdown and Advanced Search for things which I know are definitely there, and get no results from either.

Also tried using Search This Thread on this thread for Budapest, and *still* got no results. What is happening here???

I got 53 posts ....................and 17 threads

sometimes you have to NOT use a capital letter .................try 'budapest'

not Budapest

D.A.

trafalgar wrote:

I got 53 posts ....................and 17 threads

sometimes you have to NOT use a capital letter .................try 'budapest'

not Budapest

Lordy, it worked - that's bizarre. And then when I tried with a capital B after that, it worked too. But when I went into Advanced Search after that, the capital B didn't work, until I did a lowercase search - then it worked fine.

Thanks for that Trafalgar, but Martin, you really need to get your programmers to look into this one...

trafalgar_2

D.A. wrote:

Lordy, it worked - that's bizarre. And then when I tried with a capital B after that, it worked too. But when I went into Advanced Search after that, the capital B didn't work, until I did a lowercase search - then it worked fine.

Thanks for that Trafalgar, but Martin, you really need to get your programmers to look into this one...

oooohhhh maybe it's female and a little temperamental:D

loracan1

Search function also doesn't work for words with less than 4 letters - mdf being an example.

redfox

loracan1 wrote:

Search function also doesn't work for words with less than 4 letters - mdf being an example.

yes, I noticed that too. There's no way to search for a three letter word as a keyword like Sky which is a bit of a flaw - so you can't search for a thread on Sky TV for example as it classes them as two words that are both too short for the search function

I know the search facility is work in progress so I hope that the length of word problem will be sorted out eventually

sra

redfox wrote:

yes, I noticed that too. There's no way to search for a three letter word as a keyword like Sky which is a bit of a flaw - so you can't search for a thread on Sky TV for example as it classes them as two words that are both too short for the search function

I know the search facility is work in progress so I hope that the length of word problem will be sorted out eventually

you can add a wildcard (star) to three letter words to make them 4 letter word

e.g.

sky* tv