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DasBeef
Gold Member
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 02/11/2010 : 16:08:07
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Struggling to find what you're looking for? Here's a link to the old search.
Please read the "Caution" in my post below - Moderator. |
Edited by - Dr. Bob on 02/12/2010 13:33:10 |
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jackderringer
Silver Member
USA
153 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 23:22:48
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yay!!! |
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2010 : 23:42:39
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quote:
Originally posted by DasBeef
Struggling to find what you're looking for? Here's a link to the old search.
Good man DasBeef..... ..... |
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Dr. Bob
Moderator
Australia
6593 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2010 : 13:30:55
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Hi Guys
Just a quick heads up & cation about using the old forum search.
It bogs down the forum very heavily when someone is using it.
In fact it just about stops access to other users.
I have noticed that the forum has bogged down a few time over the past week or so, perhaps for this reason.
So please use the old search as little as possible.
It's one of the reasons Bossarea-ADMIN removed the link.
It's far better to for to Google or you favorite search engine.
With the simple addition addition it can give really fast & more up to date search.
Because our forum is very active.
The spiders/bots visit here very frequently & update the search tables on their respective search engines.
For example if you are searching for:
pedal mockups
Then in the search box type:
pedal mockups site:bossarea.com
or
pedal mockups site=bossarea.com
Believe me it returns very accurate & very fast results.
compared to the old slow forum search function.
Both Laurie & I have been using this as our main search for posts
and topics on bossarea & other sites.
I know Laurie uses
altavista.com
and I use a combination of
google.com
and
altavista.com
I hope this helps you all find stuff much faster.
plus it will be less taxing on the forum's code & servers.
Regards Dr. Bob  |
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DasBeef
Gold Member
United Kingdom
704 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2010 : 17:18:42
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Hi Dr.Bob. Didn't realise that was why the old search was taken down. I only found it yesterday, so if the forums been bogged down lately, I doubt it's because of this. I only used it as I didn't realise you could search in the manner you have described, and I couldn't find an old post using the search.
Feel free to delete these posts if you don't want the old search getting used, but a sticky thread with the info. you gave on searching using google etc. would be nice? |
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2010 : 17:31:09
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Naughty DasBeef trying to crash the Forum....  theres me thinking you had done some superduper whizz kid jobby and fixed the search engine..... ............. |
Edited by - FRANZONI on 02/12/2010 17:31:39 |
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bossarea
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
3652 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2010 : 21:23:30
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I don't mind that the link is there. It tends to lock up the forum while a search is running but unless we start seeing more problems we can just leave it in there.
If I wasn't so lazy I would of replaced the search with a google search. That's really what I intended to do from the beginning but they've hidden the information so well on their pages that I ended up putting in a live search instead. |
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Dr. Bob
Moderator
Australia
6593 Posts |
Posted - 02/13/2010 : 02:48:28
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Hi DasBeef, Franzoni, jackderringer & guys
As Bossarea-ADMIN mentioned, it's ok to use it, but sparingly.
To be really honest, I very occasionally use it, to find buried posts,
that might not have been referenced yet by the search engine spiders/bots.
I limit my search to a very short set of to/from dates.
As if you let it run for a longer periods, you will experience a "Forum Timeout"
I have yet to ascertain how quickly the spider/bots reference new topics & posts on our forum.
But it's not a long time, I occasionally setup a set of search parameters in Altavista & Google for new posts,
so far it appears that the Altavista spiders visit here more often.
But like everything on the net, that could change in a pico-second.
(or do they spell spiders - spyders?)
Regards Dr. Bob |
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