Forum's search feature won't work

[nukkxx5058]

Impossible to search the forum ! Whatever the keyword I'm typping (Soviet, hex, army, ...) I get no search result. This is frustrating. Any Idea ? Thx

[nukkxx5058]

Here is a screenshot of the problem. The keyword researched was "Soviet" in the WITE forum.

I tried with both Firefox and IE. Here is the result. One precision: last time I tried 9last week or so...) search engine was working normally.

What am I doing wrong ??

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Unfortunately Matrix forum search never ever worked (i.e. in all the years I am here) as it should be... sorry...


Leo "Apollo11"

[nukkxx5058]

really ? wow ... I had the impression that it was working recently ... Am I confusing with another forum ?

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: nukkxx

really ? wow ... I had the impression that it was working recently ... Am I confusing with another forum ?

It never worked 100%... at best you would get some hits but never all... thus it worked only partially...

For example for years I tried to search some old posts of mine which I knew exactly that I wrote and with exact wording... the search almost never worked... manual listing (i.e. going through hundreds and hundreds of pages manually) showed that those post indeed exist...


Leo "Apollo11"

[nukkxx5058]

Could you please try to search for "Soviet" in the WITE forum and see if you get some results? Or if it returns a completely blank page, like my picture above shows ?

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: nukkxx

Could you please try to search for "Soviet" in the WITE forum and see if you get some results? Or if it returns a completely blank page, like my picture above shows ?

Same as with you... (even if I try with "Less Precise Search")... [:(]


BTW, please try making this same post with pictures to general forum:

tt.asp?forumid=8


Leo "Apollo11"

[nukkxx5058]

Done

Thanks

[Blond_Knight]

Always been broken for me.

[2ndACR]

You have to play with it. I can most times find what I am looking for, but you have to play with all the settings to get it to work like you want. Each tiem you use it.

[jcrohio]

I go to google and use the following string

"forum example war in the east" "search phrase example fatigue" site:http://matrixgames.com/forums/

I keep this in a text file and always have it so I can reference it through the "recent documents" on the windows start menu

Works OK

Jack

[nukkxx5058]

ORIGINAL: jcrohio

I go to google and use the following string

"forum example war in the east" "search phrase example fatigue" site:http://matrixgames.com/forums/

I keep this in a text file and always have it so I can reference it through the "recent documents" on the windows start menu

Works OK

Jack

It seems to be a good idea. However, I don't understabnd the exact syntax you suggest. What are the "" ? Could you please give the exact syntax you would put into google to search the word "Experience" within the WITE forum together with a link to the google response page ?

[jcrohio]

Let me give you an example from last night - I was searching for threads dealing with support levels

I typed this into google exactly as shown (the quotes are necessary to guarantee that exact phrase):

"war in the east" "support levels" site:http://matrixgames.com/forums/



I also was searching for information on fatique so I typed in the following (quotes are not necessary around fatique):

"war in the east" fatigue site:http://matrixgames.com/forums/

Hope this helps
Jack

[Sardaukar]

You need to tick "Less precise match", then it works better.

[nukkxx5058]

ORIGINAL: jcrohio

Let me give you an example from last night - I was searching for threads dealing with support levels

I typed this into google exactly as shown (the quotes are necessary to guarantee that exact phrase):

"war in the east" "support levels" site:http://matrixgames.com/forums/



I also was searching for information on fatique so I typed in the following (quotes are not necessary around fatique):

"war in the east" fatigue site:http://matrixgames.com/forums/

Hope this helps
Jack

Perfect ! Thank you !

[nukkxx5058]

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar

You need to tick "Less precise match", then it works better.

Even with "less precise" box ticked the search returns absolutely no results at all...

[nukkxx5058]

Anyway, I didn't see any explanation from matrix about this issue. It would however be appreciated because the forum is an essential part of Matrixgames' commercial strategy. In my opinion, as a customer, it would definitely be worth the money to get it fixed. Could someone from Matrix explain why the search engine is maintained not working? Thanks.