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MNHQ - Is the search function broken or something?

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theSuburbanDryad · 13/10/2008 10:45

Being a suspicious Dryad I tried to search on a poster, who had clearly posted (otherwise I wouldn't have anything to be suspicious of) but when i ran the search it came up with 0 messages!

Am I just being thick or is there something up with the search function broken? I ran a search on my own name and it came up with over 500 messages so it's obviously working on some people!

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1dilemma · 15/10/2008 23:53

happening to me I did a threads I'm on earlier and got several, I did it again later and got 2!

SparklyGothKat · 15/10/2008 23:40

dog thread?

SaTanicGore · 15/10/2008 23:32

Well spotted, I automatically searched with 'the'

Hmm, wonder when the 'the' appeared and disappeared again.

littlelapin · 15/10/2008 23:29

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SaTanicGore · 15/10/2008 23:24

I have just searched for posts by thereturnofwonderwoman, no dates, no topics selected.

the result was:

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  • thereturnofwonderwoman Message deleted by Mumsnet. Tue 14-Oct-08 09:09:29
  • thereturnofwonderwoman I reported your personal attack LL Tue 14-Oct-08 11:58:50

So it is finding one thread with 2 posts. It isn't the thread lapin linked to.

The thread lapin linked has four posts, not one.

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YetMoreTech · 15/10/2008 23:17

Hmmm. Well...

I just searched with yesterday's date. If I search for the text "thereturnofwonderwoman" it comes up with the one thread - which is the one you linked to and sure enough, that text only appears once on that thread. If I search for that as the name of the poster it comes up with two messages on that same thread, which again is correct.

What am I missing here?

littlelapin · 14/10/2008 09:15

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nannynick · 13/10/2008 19:57

I see it happening on my screen as well... it's not showing two of posts from 10 October. Maybe there was a glitch in the indexing on Friday.

SaTanicGore · 13/10/2008 19:45

No, ignore that about upper/lower case.

Doesn't matter if I search on SaTanic or Satanic, it is still missing some posts.

And apparently sometimes threads if you can only see one of the threads nannynick.

SaTanicGore · 13/10/2008 19:42

Although I have just spotted why they aren't getting picked up.

Search always ignored upper and lower case letters. I think it is now distinguishing between them.

SaTanicGore · 13/10/2008 19:41

There are now 2 AIBU threads I have posted on under this name.

The one you mention and this one

Both threads show up for me when I search my name+AIBU, but only show as 2 posts, not the 5 that there are in total.

nannynick · 13/10/2008 19:39

That thread only includes one post by you, I can't see any others - including by searching using Ctrl-F in browser. Mumsnet Search shows only one entry. Did you perhaps post under a different username?

SaTanicGore · 13/10/2008 19:30

See my post 10.54 on this thread.

Still applies.

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YetMoreTech · 13/10/2008 19:20

SaTanicGore, could you give me an example please?

CODisGOD · 13/10/2008 17:59

YetiTechi has broken it again

SaTanicGore · 13/10/2008 17:57

Nope, still not picking up all messages YMT.

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YetMoreTech · 13/10/2008 17:51

This should be fixed now. Could you let me know if you see it happening again please?

Mucho thanks.

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theSuburbanDryad · 13/10/2008 17:39

DWP - yes, was on the dog thread.

(Glad to see i'm not the only suspicious one here! )

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GeraldineMumsnet · 13/10/2008 12:19

thanks for flagging this up. will get BigTech to check what's going on and post once I know

TheBlonde · 13/10/2008 11:49

I agree it's broken and not finding all the posts

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 13/10/2008 11:43

pmsl at ggg on that thread ' the famous person you are referring to was Jesus'

littlelapin · 13/10/2008 11:10

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TheDevilWearsPrimark · 13/10/2008 11:03

hmmm I think I know what you mean, was it on the dog thread?

littlelapin · 13/10/2008 11:02

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