Search function

[parakitaMol.]

Is there a way of searching over a time period longer than 2 years or is that it?

[NiceCupOfTea]

That's it IIRC. I think there's a limit to how much can be indexed. It's a real shame and really makes PH less of a useful resource when looking for problems etc. I think it would be worth spending money on separate machines for the "search" so that everything can be indexed.

OK, you can use Google with site:www.pistonheads.co.uk but it's hardly comprehensive...

[Mr Will]

We are looking to improve the search in the near future, including increasing the length of time indexed, but i'm afraid that at the moment you cannot search further than 2 years back.

[parakitaMol.]

thanks for the replies.

[NiceCupOfTea]

Mr.Will, is everything still online? So, if you know the URL of a 6 year old thread it will still be there?

[Mr Will]

NiceCupOfTea said:

Mr.Will, is everything still online? So, if you know the URL of a 6 year old thread it will still be there?

It is all still there, and a lot of it is indexed by google, it is just not in the PH search database

e.g. The First PH Topic

first for this version of the forums anyway!

[spend]

Why don't you just put a link to the google 'site:www.pistonheads.com' thingy function on the search page or even a front end to it? I know about it but TBH struggle to remember the syntax, so I guess plenty are oblivious and newbies will certainly be in the dark.

[parakitaMol.]

spend said:

Why don't you just put a link to the google 'site:www.pistonheads.com' thingy function on the search page or even a front end to it? I know about it but TBH struggle to remember the syntax, so I guess plenty are oblivious and newbies will certainly be in the dark.

Newbies! you are speaking jibberish to me.

What does that exacly mean?

[Silent1]

parakitaMol. said:

spend said:

Why don't you just put a link to the google 'site:www.pistonheads.com' thingy function on the search page or even a front end to it? I know about it but TBH struggle to remember the syntax, so I guess plenty are oblivious and newbies will certainly be in the dark.

Newbies! you are speaking jibberish to me.

What does that exacly mean?

Go to google, type site:www.pistonheads.com/gassing [i]my search term[i] and press search, et voila you will be provided with a multitude of results.

[spend]

parakitaMol. said:

Newbies! you are speaking jibberish to me.

What does that exactly mean?

You seem to have completely missed the whole point of PistonHeads!

new members

[parakitaMol.]

spend said:

parakitaMol. said:

Newbies! you are speaking jibberish to me.

What does that exactly mean?

You seem to have completely missed the whole point of PistonHeads!

new members

lol

I kinda know what newbies are....

I meant that claptrap about Google and the fact that it's not only newbies don't understand what's he's on about.