This has been ongoing.


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That is not the thread to which I am referring.



Trying to find a thread if you can't search it by title is very challenging. - I will try to find "Russia Sanctions" in /PR to prove it exists... but it will be a page by page ctl+F over months of threads, potential 50+ pages of thread titles.

boom -- here it is --- 7th page of PR

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/omni-...sanctions.html


title "Russia Sanctions"


search of titles using the word Russia does not bring this up for me.

so adding quotes to each word helps, but doesnt always work, im still getting fails

omni is impossible because one cannot use google

i might try playing around with thread you just found dergon darkhelm, nice effort

is it possible there is some kind of index split or something? i dont know this stuff

Tech is looking into search issues
 

Hi all! I have asked our techs to look into search to see what's up. Will update if they find/change anything!

Paul

thanks! i need to do more testing, but this is clear example >

and that reflects a change, as in past i only put words like "the" in quotes, as FT literally tells you such words are excluded because they are too common

Advanced search, search thread titles, results as threads, OMNI/PR:

Search terms "russia" - many, many threads

Search terms russia+sanctions

Reveals http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/omni-...sanctions.html

Does NOT reveal http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/omni-...sanctions.html

Search terms "russia"+sanctions

Reveals http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/omni-...sanctions.html

Does NOT reveal http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/omni-...sanctions.html

That's a glitch for sure.

Now, as to using quotation marks to force the search:

It's true these need to be used for search terms of three or fewer characters, or very common terms.

Common terms do not have to be those such as "the"; they extend to words like choice or choices and others.

I don't know if "common terms" are determined by human intervention, or automatically by software algorithms counting word usage.

that is what we noticed. re quotes, this >

Thanks for the effort.

(Really was just looking for the psychological support of "You're not crazy or stupid. It's actually the search engine." :) )

Something I have brought to attention in the past still seems not to be resolved.

When I select a subforum, in which I want the search to happen, I still have to deselect manually "search all open forums" every time.

It would be much easier if the "search all open forums" would be deselected automatically, whenever a specific forum is selected.

Tech is looking into it. I am not search if it is related to recent "fixing up" the search that was done.

RE: Search- it will be handled in the next 24 hours. I spoke with tech and they believe they know the fix, it's just time-consuming.

FT search has gotten so bad that it's to the point where I'm thinking I shouldn't even bother with it anymore.

I'll do a search on a thread that I know exists & nada, buptkus, comes up (but I truly appreciate a Rome Italy thread coming up first in search results when I search on Aruba in the Marriott forum, for example :rolleyes:). Do Aruba+Marriott+Flyertalk search on Google & the first thread/link that pops up on Google is the one I'm looking for that did not come up w/ FT search.

FT search has sucked for a long time, but it's been getting worse. I could fill up this thread w/ examples where I'll do a particular search, including the exact title of the thread, & get about multiple threads listed that areunrelated to what I searched for, or I get nothing at all w/ the appropriate no results found message, but again do the search on Google & the exact thread (that does exist) pops up on Google but didn't on FT.

Cheers.

I'm puzzled we have such varied experiences with search, so:

Advanced Search, Marriott | Rewards forum. Search thread titles, return as threads, search term aruba. No Rome, but

SkiAdcock, did you notice a sudden recent change?

im not in bigger forums here, but few problems until recently, then dead

sorry! but great to hear they identified something to fix, and how to fix it! thanks all!

Nope. I've gotten to the point where I'll do a search & if it doesn't show up in FT search I just immediately go to google, use the same search parameters+Flyertalk & it pops up immediately. I should note I've done this using exact property names (in the Marriott forum, for example) & property thread doesn't pop up on FT, but does on google. Yesterday I did a # of searches, using specifics & also on threads I myself created & knew the thread title & only a couple came up on FT - the rest required me going to Google to find them. nsx is the one who gave me the idea of doing the google search when FT search comes up w/ buptkus.

Cheers.