Not getting full search results

[wickedwitch]

I was looking for a previous post from about a month ago of mine today, but it did not show up in the search results. The same thing just happened with another search. I can find these threads manually, but they won't come up in the results.

Thanks.

[Frobby]

I am having the same problem searching for anything that is more than 1-2 weeks old.

[DuffMan]

I had some problems recently with Search as well.

[Flip217]

I'll chime in and say the same thing happened to me. I started a thread last month in the Music section on jazz, and today I was in my local record store, so I tried to bring up the thread on iPhone to look at the recommendations people had made. I couldn't find the thread in the Music se3ction, nor would it appear when I searched for "jazz". But I can find it looking at the threads I have started.

[Tony-OH]

I'll see if our tech guy can recreate the problem. I did prune some threads last week but they should have been much older than a few weeks old and only in the Orioles talk section.

[ScottieBaseball]

I did a search for the movie "The Hangover" and nothing came back. I know there was a thread going about that over the last few weeks.

By the way...I haven't pruned since my famous wipe out of 3-5 years worth of TV and movie discussion. :o

[RShack]

I did a search for the movie "The Hangover" and nothing came back. I know there was a thread going about that over the last few weeks.
You mean this one (http://forum.orioleshangout.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1789481)? I found it by going to the main OH page, not the forum page, and using the little search box there. IMO, that's the only way to get a decent search. It has google searching this site for us, rather than whatever lame tool does it when we search the standard way. (The two option labels for that search box are misleading. It gives a choice between "google" and "this site", but it's google either way. The real choice is between searching just this site vs. searching the wider internet universe.)

Even when the standard way of searching forums works OK, IMO it's still lame (or not, depending on exactly what you're trying to do). It's lame in the sense that it won't let you specify search criteria in the useful way that google does. If it was up to me, I'd have the little search box from the main OH page appear on the forum pages too, but I dunno if the software package will let you easily do that.

EDIT: Plus, the google one doesn't nag at you about waiting for 30 seconds...

RE-EDIT: On the other hand, the google version takes you to the right page, but not to the specific post. For example, when I used the main-page search box to find: "out of context" scottiebaseball purses "hook up", it took me to the bottom of the correct page, but I had to scroll up to find the post I made that I was looking for. The standard way is better for finding links to specific posts rather than just the page they are on.

[RShack]

Any news? The search function appears to return nothing that's older than the middle of last month.

[Tony-OH]

No idea...sorry.. The board is not meant to keep history anyways. I did a prtty big prune about three weeks agai so that could be part of it.

[Frobby]

No idea...sorry.. The board is not meant to keep history anyways.

But how are we supposed to say "I told you so" or bring up issues that were overkilled 3 months ago? :p

[ScottieBaseball]

But how are we supposed to say "I told you so" or bring up issues that were overkilled 3 months ago? :p

You could always employ Ravenbird's tactics and suggest that we moderators are crooked because we don't post an apology/retraction for every incorrect prediction/evaluation we've expressed over the course of a season. :D