PH Search - will it ever work again?

[dasherdiablo1]

For the majority of this year it seems that the PH search had been out of action. Very frustrating as the google one is absolute pants.

PLEEEAAASE can we have it working again soon at it is a nightmare to find anything on here at the mo.

Edited by dasherdiablo1 on Sunday 18th September 20:24

[Glassman]

dasherdiablo1 said:

the google one is absolute pants.

[Marf]

site:_pistonheads.com "search terms" on google.co.uk works better than both of them

Remove the underscore, leaving it in there on here makes a

[Glassman]

Marf said:

siteistonheads.com "search terms" on google.co.uk works better than both of them

But you can't list it in date form.. (or can you?)

[Switch]

We're having some DB Load issues. and turning the search back on makes it worse.
On Friday we elected to turn it off rather than have it fail 50% of the time (and each time it does, email us about it).
It is being looked into. And we do appreciate that it's annoying that it doesn't work.

Please do bare with us.

[Marf]

You can't no, still, I generally find what I'm looking for using the site:_ph.com search

[Switch]

This
Might help you with making date related Google searches.

[Melvin Udall]

I can see a point in time where people will no longer say "I remember when it was all fields", they will simply say,

"I remember when search worked"

[robsco]

Switch said:

Please do bare with us.

No thanks, not my scene.

[eldar]

Switch said:

Please do bare with us.

I tried that, but got some funny looks. Search still didn't work, though

[Engineer1]

Melvin Udall said:

I can see a point in time where people will no longer say "I remember when it was all fields", they will simply say,

"I remember when search worked"

Search worked? When was that?

[Melvin Udall]

Engineer1 said:

Search worked? When was that?

More than 58 months ago, n00b!

(actually, you're probably right!)

[dasherdiablo1]

Marf said:

site:_pistonheads.com "search terms" on google.co.uk works better than both of them

Remove the underscore, leaving it in there on here makes a

Exactly how does this work? (I'm simple with these matters)

[Marf]

go to google.co.uk

type in site: pistonheads.com [searchterm]

where [searchterm] is what you want to search for. remove the space between site: and pistonheads.com too

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Apistonhead...

Click the link to see what I mean

[dasherdiablo1]

Marf said:

go to google.co.uk

type in site: pistonheads.com [searchterm]

where [searchterm] is what you want to search for. remove the space between site: and pistonheads.com too

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Apistonhead...

Click the link to see what I mean

Exceellent! Very helpful :O)

[eldar]

Marf said:

go to google.co.uk

type in site: pistonheads.com [searchterm]

where [searchterm] is what you want to search for. remove the space between site: and pistonheads.com too

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Apistonhead...

Click the link to see what I mean

26,300 hits. Popular subject

[Marf]

[MPoxon]

dasherdiablo1 said:

PLEEEAAASE can we have it working again soon at it is a nightmare to find anything on here at the mo.

It is a shame that the search does not work a lot of the time. PH forums are a fantastic resource but sadly not much use without the search function working.

[MattDell]

Search is back. Have at it.

[Melvin Udall]

I just did a search for "PH search"... I think I may have broken it.