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Is the search function playing up again or is it just me?

Mouse400
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I duped a comp, although I'd searched by two URLs. Can't work out what I did wrong!
This is the dupe: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6390403/dupe-e-26-10-win-4-tickets-to-frozen-the-musical-london-lego-disney-princess-sets
And this is the original: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/79514127#Comment_79514127
I'd searched https://www.argos.co.uk/ and https://competitions.argos.co.uk/ but only my post comes up?
This is the dupe: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6390403/dupe-e-26-10-win-4-tickets-to-frozen-the-musical-london-lego-disney-princess-sets
And this is the original: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/79514127#Comment_79514127
I'd searched https://www.argos.co.uk/ and https://competitions.argos.co.uk/ but only my post comes up?
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We've removed the duplicate post, so that's why you can't find it any more.Official MSE Forum Team member. Please use the 'report' button to alert us to problem posts, or email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0
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Mouse400 said:I duped a comp, although I'd searched by two URLs. Can't work out what I did wrong!
This is the dupe: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6390403/dupe-e-26-10-win-4-tickets-to-frozen-the-musical-london-lego-disney-princess-sets
And this is the original: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/79514127#Comment_79514127
I'd searched https://www.argos.co.uk/ and https://competitions.argos.co.uk/ but only my post comes up?
However, even searching for that does not find it.
Besides url's not being found because they are hidden in "clickies", it does often happen that there can be 2 (or more) versions of a url, with subtle differences, that all lead to the same place.
In a post here, https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/78616641/#Comment_78616641, @One-Eye suggests that url's are not used for searches and gives a few alternatives. I searched for "Disney Princess" and "Frozen the Musical" both of which did return the Original thread.
It is not a good idea to just post a url when posting a comp and the more detail posted, the more chance there will be for a searchable word/phrase to be included. Obviously, Search can only find something that is actually in a post.
On the Competitions boards. Search has more problems from inadequate postings than it has from it's own deficiencies.
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MSE_ForumTeam5 said:We've removed the duplicate post, so that's why you can't find it any more.
Search is not returning any results when searching for the url as posted in the original thread.
The url not being found is https://www.argos.co.uk/events/competitions/lego-disney-princess and it makes no differences whether it is in quotes or not.
Until recently, just searching for "www.argos.co.uk" would have found that post but doesn't now although it does return https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8695015.Bob0 -
Searching using the first part of a URL, rather than the whole thing, always used to work, which is why I was puzzled. However, I take your point about clickies.0
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There is definitely a search problem with https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6390283
I believe search is not finding anything in the 1st post - including "www.argos.co.uk" which it should find. Unfortunately all the other text in the 1st post is repeated in the second post, and search is finding text in post #2 properly. The text "Princess Package" only appears in the title - and search is not finding it - which proves there is a problem.
I am looking around to see if this is an isolated problem.
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Other threads posted around the same time, with or without replies, are all behaving correctly with respect to searching, so it appears to be an isolated problem with that single thread.3 -
Thanks One-Eye for looking into it. Glad to hear that it's just that one thread!0
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