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stuj76

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30 posts

218 months

Monday 10th July 2006
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Is it me or is the search facility not working?

Cheers

PetrolTed

34,429 posts

304 months

Monday 10th July 2006
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What are you searching for?

Polarbert

17,923 posts

232 months

Monday 10th July 2006
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I searched for IP yesterday in the computers forum and nothing came up. (As in IP address)

PetrolTed

34,429 posts

304 months

Monday 10th July 2006
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Sorry, the word index only works on words of 3 letters or more.

Polarbert

17,923 posts

232 months

Monday 10th July 2006
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OK, didn't know that, obviously.

stuj76

Original Poster:

30 posts

218 months

Monday 10th July 2006
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PetrolTed said:
What are you searching for?


Tried two:

First in Porsche forum for 'gmund' within the last month and six months, the second in Audi/VW for 'camper' and 'splitty' (nothing rude!!) in the last month and six months. In both cases I could of swore that I had read/seen threads that included these words whch lead to websites.

Cheers

stuj76

Original Poster:

30 posts

218 months

Monday 10th July 2006
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stuj76 said:
PetrolTed said:
What are you searching for?


Tried two:

First in Porsche forum for 'gmund' within the last month and six months, the second in Audi/VW for 'camper' and 'splitty' (nothing rude!!) in the last month and six months. In both cases I could of swore that I had read/seen threads that included these words whch lead to websites.

Cheers


Ok do I feel a 'tool' I seem to have manged to get it to work now, therefore it must have been me!

But, will it pick out part words in say a web address?

Thanks

PetrolTed

34,429 posts

304 months

Monday 10th July 2006
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Not sure how it deals with words inside URLs. I'll check.

wendyg

2,071 posts

244 months

Wednesday 12th July 2006
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Have been having problems with search. As an experiment tonight, I've done a few searches:

- well defined topics in specific forums eg Thread title and forum as displayed in 'What's new'
- vague topics, such as 'colour' in GG

all coming up with 'No Results Found'

Definately a problem exists

mackie1

8,153 posts

234 months

Wednesday 12th July 2006
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Ditto. I was looking for the thread on deactivated guns and nothing's coming up.

PetrolTed

34,429 posts

304 months

Wednesday 12th July 2006
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Will check it out later today.

pwig

11,956 posts

271 months

Wednesday 12th July 2006
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Yeah no matches for 'goodwood' in General gassing for me lol

funkynige

8,906 posts

276 months

Wednesday 12th July 2006
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pwig said:
Yeah no matches for 'goodwood' in General gassing for me lol


A handy thing in Google is putting site:www.whatever.com before your search to only search that site, so to search for Goodwood on PH you get

www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.pistonheads.com%2Fgassing+good

PetrolTed

34,429 posts

304 months

Thursday 13th July 2006
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pwig said:
Yeah no matches for 'goodwood' in General gassing for me lol


Sorted. Turned out the database was 6 weeks out of date

stuj76

Original Poster:

30 posts

218 months

Thursday 13th July 2006
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PetrolTed said:
pwig said:
Yeah no matches for 'goodwood' in General gassing for me lol


Sorted. Turned out the database was 6 weeks out of date


Thanks Ted, thought I had truly lost it!