Search not working?
Oct 10, 2007, 10:55 am
#1
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Search not working?
I tried "Search this Forum" within Travel Technology, the generic Search, and Advanced Search - all three give a blank screen with a URL of http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/search.php?do=process
View Page Source give a completely blank page
It doesn't appear to depend on the phrase being searched.
View Page Source give a completely blank page
It doesn't appear to depend on the phrase being searched.
Oct 10, 2007, 11:01 am
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Probably related to new ability to do 3 letter searches. Tried one this morning and still got the cannot search because one word is not 4 letters long warning.
Oct 10, 2007, 11:18 am
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The new search is horrendous. I use the search mainly to find out threads where people have replied to my posts. Now this is almost impossible because it is returning same threads over and over again.
Can we have the old search back please?
Can we have the old search back please?
Oct 10, 2007, 3:22 pm
#5
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I tried "Search this Forum" within Travel Technology, the generic Search, and Advanced Search - all three give a blank screen with a URL of http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/search.php?do=process
View Page Source give a completely blank page
It doesn't appear to depend on the phrase being searched.
View Page Source give a completely blank page
It doesn't appear to depend on the phrase being searched.
Oct 10, 2007, 3:55 pm
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Oct 10, 2007, 4:05 pm
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Oct 10, 2007, 4:16 pm
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I must agree that the new search utility is less useful. Under Advanced Search, when specifying a username I could ask for all posts by that user or only threads started by that user... now, I can no longer do that. That functionality was very useful and it is a serious drawback to have it go missing.
The time-stamp search should include "weeks" instead of just days, months, and years. Sure, it's easy to say "14 days" but people don't often think like that.
I liked the old search functionality better.
The time-stamp search should include "weeks" instead of just days, months, and years. Sure, it's easy to say "14 days" but people don't often think like that.
I liked the old search functionality better.
Oct 10, 2007, 5:50 pm
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The new search function is bizarre, to put it mildly. I tried the "search this thread" for a particular thread in Newsstand, and the results that came up provided links for virtually every thread under sun BUT the one I was trying to search! What gives?
Oct 10, 2007, 8:35 pm
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Code:
HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:31:12 GMT
Server: Apache
Expires: 0
Cache-Control: private, post-check=0, pre-check=0, max-age=0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Length: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Oct 10, 2007, 8:36 pm
#13
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Now I try searching for posts by my user ID in the last 2 days, and I get 21 results. Unfortunately, there are only 7 actual, unique posts. Each result appears between 1 and 5 times.