Search difficulties...

[Kythag]

This is my second forum.  When I put obvious terms into the search engine, like \"vampire\" or \"faces\", I get no results.  What am I doing wrong?  I have looked at the options, and it looks to me like it should find something when it is searching all posts for exact match.  I know there are three vampire threads and one faces thread, but it is finding nothing.

[Karyuu]

I have heard that the board (version) we use currently messes with the Search quite a bit, and admins/mods/special groups get better searches than regular users. I\'m not sure how reliable the info is, but gathering from the amount of people who have a hard time coming up with threads they are searching for, it\'s rather odd.

Some suggestions I can make:

[*]If you are looking for something that you know will be in a specific section of the forum, search in just that section. This is particularly helpful with Wishlist suggestions/discussions.
[*]Remember that you can have your searches show up as separate posts, or individual threads - when searching on a general subject, having searches returned as threads may be of more use.
[*]Make sure you are searching for all threads ever created - if that\'s what you want - instead of threads created in the past week or month.
[*]If multiple pages of search results come up, make sure you\'re not skipping \'em when looking them over.
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Beyond that.... well, that\'s all I have.. :)

[Kythag]

I\'ve tried everything I can think of.  I have even tried looking upo names like Karyuu. moogie, etc and zilch.



Oh well, forgive any indiscretions.  I\'ll keep using search, I will eventually figure it out on my own.  I was only hoping someone had a shortcut.

[Karyuu]

Just for my own curiousity: Could you take a screenshot of the search form you fill out, using a few (or just one, perhaps) vampire keyword, and then take a screenshot of the search results? I\'d like to compare it with what happens when I search using the same parameters.

[Kythag]

Nevermind, I found the problem.  It\'s the AOL browser.  (I use it for the spyware detection and popup blockers, after all, who knows more about these two things than AOL?)

I can search to my hearts content in IE.

(Why do I keep getting saddled with MS?)

I\'ll check to see if Opera and Advant can use searches.

[Karyuu]

Opera and Firefox browsers should have no problems with searches at all, as far as I\'ve checked :) Good to see this \"solved\" though!

[Kythag]

The search works in AOL on Gamebanshee.  I checked the coding looks different.  Maybe AOL is shutting the search down as \"intrusive\".

Any HTML coders got any ideas?

[DaveG]

Originally posted by Kythag
It\'s the AOL browser.  (I use it for the spyware detection and popup blockers, after all, who knows more about these two things than AOL?)

LOL... The sad thing is, I don\'t think you were being sarcastic.  

Get FireFox like a sane person.  It has no popups, and you can get AddBlocker to get rid of all adds.  Don\'t install browser junk, and you won\'t have spyware.  

[Kythag]

Dave:

I can go to sites with the AOL browser that will shut down any other browser, and the AOL browser doesn\'t even flinch.  It can be shutdown, but it takes a concentrated effort.  And yes, it is sad.  I once sicced a US Senator on AOL for their evil ways(No tomatoes ross, lol).  He had the FCC crawling all over them.  (Point being, I have no love for the company.)

I haven\'t tried the Firefox browser(I usually use Opera).  I am gonna give it a try.  Anything that keeps me from the status quo is a sunshiny day for me!  But I give the devil his due, AOL can connect to the internet with a ringer washer!(How else are they gonna upload stuff you don\'t want without your consent?)

I\'m still waiting for some HTML guru to help me determine what the AOL browser is reacting to.  :\\

BTW, that comment was  oozing sarcasm like Old Faithful oozes water.  It\'s kinda hard to smell sarcasm over the net though, isn\'t it?  Sometimes you can be sarcastic when you say the truth.

Truth is a virus!