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Subject: Re:Phew, glad its not just me....

Date: Tue 26/11/19 01:04:11 GMT

Name: Malvineous

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I seem to recall that searching other forums via Google does not work all that well, and I have to use the forums’ own integrated search. That is fine with fully-fledged forum software, but not for this site.

(The funniest one was trying to find a particular Matsushita keyboard, which Google did know about but it was indexed as “Matsu****a” because the profanity filter is enabled for anonymous access, but can be disabled by users individually.)

Out of curiosity, I dug up a post from July and searched for it within the forum (using Google): nothing. I then tried with Bing (same search terms exactly), and I got a load of results, seemingly mostly irrelevant, but the first result was the forum page with the link. With quotes around the URL, it becomes the second result.

So, Bing is an possible alternative. Not great, but it might help.

I guess it is just some kind of limitation within Google — after all, if you *have* a URL, why would you be asking Google for the URL you already have?

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Phew, glad its not just me....

By jollywetfellow - Sun 24/11/19 23:06:18 GMT

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But it is more than just "some temporary glitch". I first discovered the problem well over a year ago, long before that post even existed, and stopped posting youtubes - after mildly embarrassing myself by posting several repeats, including one I had previously posted myself! (I was getting into finding latina ladies on Facebook by then anyway). And this afternoon I found several other examples of previously-posted urls which the search engine didn't recognise. Unfortunately I didn't bother to record which they were, but one which I do remember was that I wanted to see whether it was just urls which were affected, so searched for the first sentence of my own post just above that one (which conveniently contains several words which rarely come up in other posts in the Forum) and it couldn't find that one either.

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Wow, interesting that one does NOT work, like you said...

By MiguelWarsaw - Sun 24/11/19 19:42:33 GMT

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Maybe Google missed it for some reason why scanning. Some temporary glitch. Cause it's just a swimming with dogs clip and the URL does not contain any random letters which can make some banned word or something so no reason for Google to intentionally omit it.

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Yes, that one works for me too, Miguel

By jollywetfellow - Sun 24/11/19 16:51:58 GMT

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This is weird. I have tried copying and pasting lots of different examples, from randomly chosen archive pages up to about 18 months ago, into the search box, and it finds some but not others. All the ones I tried within the last couple of months worked, so I began to think that it only worked for recent posts - but then found some posts a year ago which worked. The one I tried before doing my original post was the youtube url from post 77524 (just because it happened to be right after the post I linked to below); that still doesn't work for me, does it work for other people?

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wait, what? It still works fine for me...

By MiguelWarsaw - Sat 23/11/19 22:35:07 GMT

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I just tried with vk.com which I used to search old Russian stuff, and which is always inside the message and not in the title and as usual. Tried (https://mydailyspace.dk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/polfoto-48537185-1.jpg) so a random URL from some Nov 11 post (total at random click at one of the last posts on the current page as I’m not sure how fast Google scans) and also got the results. Everything works fine as ever. The forum uses Google search. Maybe you blocked something in Google settings of your account?

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Why can I no longer search the content of previous posts

By jollywetfellow - Sat 23/11/19 21:43:12 GMT

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As various people have said, almost everything which Anonymous has posted had been posted before (which is no doubt why he found them so easily, of course, given the way all these social media sites suggest to you things which other 'people like you' have viewed). A few years ago, when I used to post lots of youtubes to the Forum I used first to check whether each had been posted before by copying and pasting the url into the Forum search box, which would then tell me any post in which the same url appeared. But I can't do that now - the search function now only searches the titles of posts and names of posters, and not their content. Is this because of a change in my own software, or is it a change in the Forum - and if the latter, why?

I suspect our anonymous poster is not the kind of person to bother with that sort of check anyway, but, assuming he was relatively new to the Forum, there would now appear to be no way in which he could have found out whether what he was posting was 'old stuff' even if he had wanted to???

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