The Admins are working on implimenting a new search engine into the forums, instead of using the one that is built into the forum. right now, there is no "search by" search, because it hasnt been set up yet (at least, from my understanding after reading this thread)
http://guildwarsguru.com/forum/showt...php?t=10015827
Hmmmm. Either I posted in wrong place, or the thread i posted in was merged.
odd
[MERGED] New Search Engine
Wrath Of Dragons
capitalist
What happened to search, it's off-peak and I still have to use some crappy search function.
Tark Alkerk
am i the only one with this problem?
when i click on my public profile and try to find all my posts i get taken to a random page with a dog on it,(i will try and post a pic later)
and i can't find my posts.
is it just me?
when i click on my public profile and try to find all my posts i get taken to a random page with a dog on it,(i will try and post a pic later)
and i can't find my posts.
is it just me?
awesome sauce
Yeah, this third party search engine blows. When can we have the old one back?
Malice Black
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Originally Posted by awesome sauce
Yeah, this third party search engine blows. When can we have the old one back?
when ppl stop complaining and give them a chance to get it fixed properly instead of asking for a rush job then complaining one month down the line when search goes down again
Wrath Of Dragons
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Originally Posted by BoardTracker
Also we are releasing a new version of the search mod in the next few days with additional search features including user search and other nifty stuff..
yey!!!!!!
Bane of Worlds
awesome
arcanemacabre
This will work.
=HT=Ingram
Yea my favorite function. Find all posts from user.... That is definitely missed...
Like finding my last 10 posts and such. I have resorted to subscribing to anything I post too. Which makes my subscribe folder HUGE. lol
Been plying around with other ideas. like bookmarking or organizing things I want to track in a Guru folder of shortcuts on my desktop. IDK. If you cant get the search working again, I suppose I can work with it this way, but I have to admit its a little harder to keep track of stuff to refer too now cause I can't find what I know is here SOMEPLACE... lol In any case. thanks for your efforts.
ingy...
Like finding my last 10 posts and such. I have resorted to subscribing to anything I post too. Which makes my subscribe folder HUGE. lol
Been plying around with other ideas. like bookmarking or organizing things I want to track in a Guru folder of shortcuts on my desktop. IDK. If you cant get the search working again, I suppose I can work with it this way, but I have to admit its a little harder to keep track of stuff to refer too now cause I can't find what I know is here SOMEPLACE... lol In any case. thanks for your efforts.
ingy...
Ozric
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Originally Posted by BoardTracker
Just for your information.. we are currently indexing the board but as there are over 200k threads to index and we don't want to overload the board by doing it too quickly, it will take some time.. currently I think we've indexed around 22k threads so this is why you wont always get many results for searches but it will increase as our spiders progress. Patience.. 
*cracks whip at BoardTracker* Mush!! 
*cracks whip at BoardTracker* Mush!!
Carth`
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Originally Posted by BoardTracker
currently I think we've indexed around 22k threads so this is why you wont always get many results for searches but it will increase as our spiders progress.
Ah, this solves my problem. The search wasn't finding threads that I knew existed. It was only returning 5 or 6 results for things that should have been very common. I guess this is why. Good luck with your indexing.
Good luck with your indexing.
SnipiousMax
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Originally Posted by BoardTracker
.. we are currently indexing the board but as there are over 200k threads to index...
Out of curiousity... How do you index a message board? Surely you don't have to do it manually... 
Malice Black
they have a small program that does all the hard work
DigitalForm
Just signed up for GWG tonight after I had been on another forum that I haven't been able to access for a couple days. Keeps timing out.
As such I don't have any posts of my own to search for so I searched for all of the posts from The Admins Bane (avatar made me smile). It gave me "Last 17 (of 17) threads initiated by The Admins Bane on Guild Wars Guru Forums".
It seems to only return the posts of threads STARTED by people and ignores the others.
Is it going to be possible to find ALL posts by people when this gets sorted out?
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Too late for a saying today.
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As such I don't have any posts of my own to search for so I searched for all of the posts from The Admins Bane (avatar made me smile). It gave me "Last 17 (of 17) threads initiated by The Admins Bane on Guild Wars Guru Forums".
It seems to only return the posts of threads STARTED by people and ignores the others.
Is it going to be possible to find ALL posts by people when this gets sorted out?
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Too late for a saying today.
4 characters - 2 Tyrian over a year old, 2 Canthan
Malice Black
yea, this was possible before this place got too big and search went down to cope with the load, im sure it will be available after they have finished indexing the site for the new search feature
Ira Blinks
broken:
clicking on "Find all posts by Ira Blinks" gives me list of threads started by me.
"Find all threads started by Ira Blinks" sends me to the search page for user "Unnamed" with 0 results.
clicking on "Find all posts by Ira Blinks" gives me list of threads started by me.
"Find all threads started by Ira Blinks" sends me to the search page for user "Unnamed" with 0 results.
extra bacon
they're not done indexing all the threads yet, so your search results won't show everything you're looking for. i haven't even bothered using the search function, and won't, until there's an announcement from one of the mods that search is up and running satisfactorily.
in the meantime, as already mentioned in earlier posts, a good way to keep track of the threads you're posting in is by subscribing to the thread or bookmarking it.
in the meantime, as already mentioned in earlier posts, a good way to keep track of the threads you're posting in is by subscribing to the thread or bookmarking it.
Ira Blinks
read again what i said... The data isn't incomplete, it is just wrong.
extra bacon
i know what you wrote, and i responded with what i said because a few days ago, i got the same thing when clicking on "find all posts" in my profile, ie. 0 threads under "unnamed". but doing so today yielded 3 threads under "extra bacon". and i expect there'll be more tomorrow, and even more the day after. it's a work in progress, just hang in there.
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ps. try clicking on the "find all posts" link instead of the "find all threads" link. just did that in your profile and came up with 20+ threads.
edit:
ps. try clicking on the "find all posts" link instead of the "find all threads" link. just did that in your profile and came up with 20+ threads.
Ira Blinks
looking for posts yeilds the threads, looking for threads - nothing and under wrong name. If that is not broken, then what is?
Feminist Terrorist
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Originally Posted by kzap
in an upcoming version you will be able to search by forum, but for now you can't.
I'm glad that's in the works as it was specifically the issue I came in here to find out about. I was trying to do a search in the price check forum and kept getting things from throughout Ventari's Sell. Not very efficient, and I gave up. I'll just throw a price at my stuff and hope it sells. lol
YunSooJin
I'm getting the same problem Extra Bacon and Ira Blinks have.
It's a big problem that I cannot do searches for posts made by a specific user as well.. it is very very frustrating not to be able to do that.
It's a big problem that I cannot do searches for posts made by a specific user as well.. it is very very frustrating not to be able to do that.
carbajac
I'll just say that I like the new search engine. I was surprised the first time I saw that little dog filling up but it gets the job done. It's worked everytime and I've normally been able to find what I was looking for. At least it works now.
Haven't searched for specific users, but I don't normally care to do that anyway.
Haven't searched for specific users, but I don't normally care to do that anyway.
Wilheim Eversmann
can anyone tell me how to trace my bids which i posted in someone's threads?? if i cant find the thread back, then my bid is usless.....
Malice Black
subscribe to thread..its the only option at this point
Carth`
Sorry if this has been mentioned, but the new search doesn't seem to work in Opera 9. The dog appears and fills up but the results never show.
Wrath Of Dragons
Is board tracker down at the moment?
Its seeming that way, and im hoping its not just my internet
Edit: Apparently, its working on the search, just not the "all posts by..."
Its seeming that way, and im hoping its not just my internet
Edit: Apparently, its working on the search, just not the "all posts by..."
Saider maul
The old search was better this new one just does not get the job done and is not user friendly.
Age
This boardtracker is fine but I just want to know how do you go about finding indivdual post instead of thread?That is all I am getting now?
Buzzer
Same problem. I can't find threads I've posted in, but not started.
coolsti
The search function on this forum is now hereby dead and worthless.
Two of the most necessary features that I noticed are missing:
1) There is no way to limit your search to a particular sub forum
2) There is no advanced feature to allow you to search for posts by an author.
My how progress goes in the wrong direction!
Two of the most necessary features that I noticed are missing:
1) There is no way to limit your search to a particular sub forum
2) There is no advanced feature to allow you to search for posts by an author.
My how progress goes in the wrong direction!
ChildeOfMalkav
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Originally Posted by coolsti
The search function on this forum is now hereby dead and worthless.
Two of the most necessary features that I noticed are missing:
1) There is no way to limit your search to a particular sub forum
2) There is no advanced feature to allow you to search for posts by an author.
My how progress goes in the wrong direction! I agree. The current search function is useless to me. I rather put up with the occasional downtimes of the old search function, because when it did work it worked great. This current one is very lacking.
Two of the most necessary features that I noticed are missing:
1) There is no way to limit your search to a particular sub forum
2) There is no advanced feature to allow you to search for posts by an author.
My how progress goes in the wrong direction! I agree. The current search function is useless to me. I rather put up with the occasional downtimes of the old search function, because when it did work it worked great. This current one is very lacking.
Inde
Agreed! Ooooo, didn't think you saw that one coming. 
We have another upgrade that's going to happen soon on that. I'll keep you all informed and we'll see if it will solve a lot of our problems.
We have another upgrade that's going to happen soon on that. I'll keep you all informed and we'll see if it will solve a lot of our problems.
dansamy
Any update on possibly restoring the more functional vBulletin search function? With that one, I could locate all posts by a user. With the current one, I can only find threads started by that user.
arcanemacabre
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Originally Posted by dansamy
Any update on possibly restoring the more functional vBulletin search function? With that one, I could locate all posts by a user. With the current one, I can only find threads started by that user.
Agreed. Wondering myself whether or not we'll see that function again. For me, it's the single most-used feature on this forum (or any other, for that matter).
Also, would be nice to be able to search within sub-forums, like before. Doing a search for where Oni Blades drop, you'd have to pretty much look for only "Oni Blade", yeilding countless buy/sell threads. You'd have better luck just sifting through all the threads in the Question and Riverside forums yourself.
I would think that the "Board Tracker" surely has sorted all the posts and recorded them in a database by now. How hard would it be to implement selective searches? Is it just not set up for that? Though clearly it's set up to at least find all threads started by a user, so what's the difference?
Also, would be nice to be able to search within sub-forums, like before. Doing a search for where Oni Blades drop, you'd have to pretty much look for only "Oni Blade", yeilding countless buy/sell threads. You'd have better luck just sifting through all the threads in the Question and Riverside forums yourself.
I would think that the "Board Tracker" surely has sorted all the posts and recorded them in a database by now. How hard would it be to implement selective searches? Is it just not set up for that? Though clearly it's set up to at least find all threads started by a user, so what's the difference?
bigwig
the limited functionality is a bit of a pain, but i'm betting it saves a load of bandwidth.
Fist_of_God
I agree, the new board tracker is blah, and everytime you get added links to buy gw gold or gw ecto from google listings. Seems like that would be against the forum rules, no matter how much bandwith it saves.
Wrath Of Dragons
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Originally Posted by Fist_of_God
I agree, the new board tracker is blah, and everytime you get added links to buy gw gold or gw ecto from google listings. Seems like that would be against the forum rules, no matter how much bandwith it saves.
I have never seen results outside of guildwarsguru.com. what keyword did you use to find these links? the bordtracker is new, and you might have found a bug
Lady Lozza
Actually the two times I've tried using it to locate a thread I KNEW existed, it came up with nothing...
kzap
what thread is that?