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Search Is Fixed

12 Apr 10 - 11:36 PM (#2885305)
Subject: Search Is Fixed
From: Max

Search Is Fixed

I posted twice to Tech: Should Mudcat be updated? only a little snarkily.


12 Apr 10 - 11:36 PM (#2885306)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: ranger1

Max, you are awesome.


12 Apr 10 - 11:53 PM (#2885313)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Janie

Thanx Max.


13 Apr 10 - 12:18 AM (#2885317)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Reinhard

Thank you Max! But when I try to search for e.g. Peter Bellamy I get just two forum results and then this error message:



Error Occurred While Processing Request

Error Diagnostic Information

Request timed out

The time taken to process your request has exceeded the allowable limit of 30 seconds. Please notify the server administrator (using the mail link below) that this error has occurred.

Note: You can override the request time limit by adding a 'RequestTimeout' parameter to the URL used to request the page (e.g. page.cfm?RequestTimeout=500).

SQL = "EXEC GetMembernameFromID 15118"

Data Source = "MUDCAT"

The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFQUERY), occupying document position (134:1) to (134:90) in the template file C:\!WEBSERVER\MUDCAT\HTDOCS\@NEWSSRESULTS.CFM.

Date/Time: 04/13/10 00:15:58
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; de; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Remote Address: 85.179.215.30
HTTP Referrer: http://www.mudcat.org/threads.cfm


13 Apr 10 - 12:26 AM (#2885318)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: catspaw49

Great! That was the only thing I asked for!!!

Except for more accessibility for trans-sexual cross dressing Albanian hat blockers doing nude Morris Dancing. When can we expect some action on that?


Spaw


13 Apr 10 - 12:28 AM (#2885319)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Max

Ah, yes, the bugs. Not so much a bug as it is 2.9 million messages. Takes some crunch time to get through. Optimizing. Plus, I'm still indexing messages between 2,000,000 and 2,800,000. Server is a bit taxed at the moment.


13 Apr 10 - 12:30 AM (#2885322)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Max

Spaw, chatroulette.com already has trans-sexual cross dressing Albanian hat blockers doing nude Morris Dancing.


13 Apr 10 - 12:48 AM (#2885326)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: catspaw49

They do? That's great......I was so worried that they weren't being given an equal forum. I'll notify Conrad the ! Peasant right away.

Spaw

And on a more serious note..........thanks.


13 Apr 10 - 01:58 AM (#2885345)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Joe Offer

Hmmmm. Says you have to enable your camera when going to chatroulette. I've seen the elusive Spaw. I think Max could get arrested for sending Spaw to a site where people have to look at him....


13 Apr 10 - 03:43 PM (#2885771)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: GUEST,Visitor

Fixed...except that when you click on any of the search results you get a 'page not found' message.


13 Apr 10 - 04:08 PM (#2885779)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: GUEST,Peter Laban

Is it? Really?

I just tried to bring up The Seamus Ennis Appreciation Society thread and could only do so through Google. Mudcat did bring up another 'Is search broken/' thread where I mentioned being unable to bring up the same thread but not the thread itself. And yes I tried several times and several word combinations from the thread title.


13 Apr 10 - 04:38 PM (#2885817)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Crowhugger

Thanks, Max.
~CH.


13 Apr 10 - 05:13 PM (#2885837)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: wysiwyg

Hi Val!

~Praise


13 Apr 10 - 05:30 PM (#2885851)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Charley Noble

Better is better!

I'll settle for that.

Thanks, Max!

Charley Noble


13 Apr 10 - 05:52 PM (#2885866)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Max

Peter, just ran your search and it popped up in record speed. May I humbly suggest user error?

Visitor, not sure what you are doing either. I'm getting no errors.

What am I missing here?

Reminds me of an interview of a KKK grand master. The interview said "Let's say you win and all people of color are eradicated from this world. What will you do then?" The grand master replied "Move on to eye color."

When no errors remain, what will you do then?


13 Apr 10 - 06:06 PM (#2885881)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Max

By the way, if you took a moment to read this search tutorial, you'd be well served. I recommend the advanced search for most cases. It's very powerful.


13 Apr 10 - 08:24 PM (#2885998)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Melissa

Thank you, Max


13 Apr 10 - 08:34 PM (#2886006)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Rowan

Thanks also for the link to the tutorial, Max. Although I had some notions about the Advanced search routines, I'd not seen the in-depth stuff you have in the tute. Perhaps it could be listed and hot-linked in the "Quick Links" list at the top of the Menu page.

Cheers, Rowan


13 Apr 10 - 08:53 PM (#2886024)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Sorcha

And thank YOU too, Max! LOL. I do but try.

Seriously, I'm glad you got search fixed.

But NEVER expect ME to be 'sweetness and light'. I call it like I see it. It does what it says on the tin.

And I KNOW you have a life, unlike some others on here. Love to the family, and LUCK with the Life.


14 Apr 10 - 01:49 AM (#2886149)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Joe Offer

Hmmm. I searched for Seamus Ennis Appreciation Society and didn't come up with the thread with that title. I don't think that particular phrase is used in any of the messages in the thread, so it may be that SuperSearch is programmed just to search message texts. It comes right up with the filter and the Old Advanced Forum Search, but not with SuperSearch.

-Joe-


14 Apr 10 - 03:53 AM (#2886180)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: GUEST,Peter Laban

Actually I posted a message on that thread that has the words Seamus Ennis and Appreciation Society in it although not in one un-interrupted phrase.

Maybe it's just one of those things. It is however one of the searches I have used at intervals to post to that particular thread and always had to resort to Google to actually find it.

Makes you wonder though how many threads don't come up.


14 Apr 10 - 05:09 AM (#2886209)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: GUEST,Peter Laban

Sorry Max, only just saw your post. In fairness, I just tried that search again and this thread comes up now but not the thread with the title I was looking for.

It's no big deal, I knew it was there and I got to it.


14 Apr 10 - 05:53 AM (#2886226)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: catspaw49

This thread?

I just Power Searched on Seamus Ennis and got this one immediately.

Spaw


14 Apr 10 - 06:29 AM (#2886251)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: GUEST,Peter Laban

Maybe casting a wider net is the answer.


14 Apr 10 - 06:39 AM (#2886261)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: GUEST,Mr Red

Thanx Max


14 Apr 10 - 08:22 PM (#2886828)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Sorcha

Sorry, the 'mouse hover' does not work for me. If I click on the blank bar, it depends on just WHERE I click. There are NO hover indicators, I just have to move the mouse and click at will. Yes, it's all still there, but NOT easy to find.

Hop to it Emperor Max, since no one else is 'allowed' to help. The Offers have been made. (no, not by me….but Max knows who)


14 Apr 10 - 08:40 PM (#2886836)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Max

OK, Sorcha. Happy now. I'm replacing the feature all-together so a volunteer won't be necessary. Users will manage there own information and privacy. It is not prudent to do any other way. It creates too much admin work and liability.

And the auction is in action now too.


14 Apr 10 - 09:01 PM (#2886852)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Sorcha

Thank you Max.


15 Apr 10 - 02:34 AM (#2886981)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Joe Offer

Max, can you verify this?

I think the SuperSearch searches only the text of messages, and not the titles. There are thread and message titles with the term Seamus Ennis Appreciation Society contained in them, but not messages with that exact term until just now.

Am I right, Max?

-Joe-


15 Apr 10 - 03:31 AM (#2887003)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: GUEST,Peter Laban

Joe, the words are used in the actual thread as well as the title.

It's no big deal but I suppose it's a little flaw that does occur and worth to keep in mind


15 Apr 10 - 03:40 AM (#2887010)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Joe Offer

Hi, Peter -
They ARE used in the thread, but not as a single phrase. Mudcat Search is set to look for phrases as typed in the query. In Google, a search for four works will bring up anything that all of those words, wherever they are in a document. To search for an exact phrase in Google, you have to put the phrase in quotes - you don't have to do that in Mudcat search.

-Joe-


15 Apr 10 - 09:23 PM (#2887614)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: The Fooles Troupe

Just a thought...

If the Search is 'Fixed' ...

How do we trust the results?


:-P




I'll get me hat....


16 Apr 10 - 08:22 AM (#2887869)
Subject: RE: Search Is Fixed
From: Mooh

To quote Charles Montgomery Burns, "Excellent!".

Thanks Max.

Peace, Mooh.