The Search Engine ( for Altec User's Board ) is Broken

[Earl K]

As mentioned previously ( in the Forum Lives thread ) ;

- The search engine for this forum does not work properly . Hopefully it'll get fixed at some point .

- More specifically, all posts from the time period from late 2008 to mid-May 2011 are in a "black-hole" at this point in time and are not searchable/findable .

- Simply put , if one uses the Advanced Search function ( for this forum ) and asks to see all posts ( shown as posts ) from a specific member ( say "GM", or "bfish", or "old guy" , or "RonSSS", etc. ) one will soon find this blacked-out time period .

- The same applies if one asks to see all threads started by a specific member // though if that old thread has had a recent post ( posted after "the site conversion" ) , it'll show up in a search .

<> EarlK

[Altec Best]

- The same applies if one asks to see all threads started by a specific member // though if that old thread has had a recent post ( posted after "the site conversion" ) , it'll show up in a search .

<> EarlK

Yup, It is as though the forum start date is when the changeover took place :-(

[Team Hostboard]

As I posted yersterday in "The Forum Lives..." and is at the moment the last post, I have updated the search index yesterday. A search of "Altec" yeilds:

Search took 0.07 seconds; generated 2 minute(s) ago.
Results 1 to 25 of 195

Last Post: March 6th, 2007 04:09

If I need to tweak something or I am missing something please let me know. If you are getting different results you might have to logout and back in or possibly clear your browsers cache/cookies.

[Team Hostboard]

I just did a search for user GM

Search took 0.02 seconds.
Results 1 to 6 of 6
Oldest post: Started by GM‎, January 12th, 2007 03:00 AM

Again please let me know if this is consistent/correct or if I need to go through a second rebuild.

[Altec Best]

I just did a search for user GM

Search took 0.02 seconds.
Results 1 to 6 of 6
Oldest post: Started by GM‎, January 12th, 2007 03:00 AM

Again please let me know if this is consistent/correct or if I need to go through a second rebuild.

Steven GM joined this forum back in 2002 IIRC and has thousands of posts 2400 or more I'm quite sure. 1 of 6 something is wrong !

I just searched all posts made by me.

Results: I get 1of 10 that goes back 4 days ! :-(

[Team Hostboard]

No problem at all. It is information like this that let me know we need to go and update the counters manually as the automated process skipped something. Will get on this this afternoon and let you know once were done.

[Earl K]

- Here are some example threads which are currently unfindable/searchable .
- They won't show when searching for them as threads started by their author ( they should ) , nor do they show/return using a the normal Keyword ( when it exists ) within the threads title ( again, they should ) .
- These are just the tip of the iceberg as mentioned in my first post .

PascaLite , thread starter is " Bill F777 " http://www.hostboard.com/forums/f700.../?daysprune=-1

Karlson cabs with 604s , thread starter is " A7fan " http://www.hostboard.com/forums/f700.../?daysprune=-1

model 3156 , thread starter is " pipe " http://www.hostboard.com/forums/f700.../?daysprune=-1

N-3000-F , thread starter is " ZilchLab " http://www.hostboard.com/forums/f700.../?daysprune=-1


<> EarlK

[cradeldorf]

I get an error box. : (

[Fran604g]

All my posts are gone except 5...

[Earl K]

All my posts are gone except 5...

- IMHO, it's quite a bit more helpfull to state the specific search circumstances that you implemented, that only gave you 5 posts .

- For instance ; I just "retreived" 70 of your posts , after left-clicking on your forum name > & then selecting "View Forum Posts" .

- From what I've seen recently, repair to the search engine is a good 3/4 accomplished .

<> EarlK