Search has now deteriorated from erratic and unreliable to totally dead, am I right?

As many of you have already noticed, search is obviously not functional at the moment. The issue causing the failure is being addressed as I write this. I'll provide more updates as they become available.

Search is functional again.

Honestly, that could be debated. :)

What Happens to the Search Update Announcement?
 

This morning, I noticed the announcement, posted in mid-May, is gone, even though it hasn't been updated.

Giving all the "new" developments of search problems and site performance in the last couple of weeks, are there new plans and schedules as to how the search "improvements" are going to play out?

Any update will be appreciated.

The vanishing of the announcement was the result of an auto end date setting that needed to be changed ... it's up again now.

No new news yet, but the plan is still to update the announcement when the next round of modifications are implemented.

Sometime in the past 24 hours search has again lost the ability to show date and time by my own settings. This was fixed earlier and now seems to be unfixed :(

Search is now hanging and never completes.

EDIT: And of course this post never showed as actually completing, but the screen simply hung forever.

Is there any update on when the rest of the search problems will be addressed? The forum announcement is almost 3 months old.

I have several FAQ threads that are getting more and more out of date because it is difficult to find the relevant threads to link to.

On 20Jun08, I sent a PM to Mikel and Kevin, amongst other things, noting:

This hasn't even been updated in the announcement.

We seem to be back to the times when nobody is taking the time to keep us updated.

As a reminder, search is still not returning all results and not necessarily sorting properly the results it does return.

In other words - the darn thing still doesn't work!

Why am I not surprised by your right-on-target assessment? ;)

IB, some search updates, please? Or should I use search (key words: search updates), would it help? :p

ps. If I am tech-savvy enough, I may just write a syntax (or whatever you call it) and have the search update announcement update itself.

When I search by title only, search continues to look at titles of posts within the thread and not at the title of the thread. Thus, threads I have retitled to properly reflect their content will not show up in a search by title.

Deleted Posts Are Still Showing Up in Search Results!
 

This is an ongoing problem that I don't think has been addressed (by FT/IB) yet: Deleted Posts Are Still Showing Up in Search Results!

Personally, I don't care who can see my deleted posts, but I don't think it's a good thing for us (general membership), that don't need to see them, to have access to these.

This was brought up ages ago, is there some reason that they can't be removed from search results?