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PostPosted: Thu Oct 24, 2024 5:16 pm    Post subject: Searches no longer working? Reply with quote

I have noticed for some months that searches return a 404 not found error.
Does Search no longer work on this website?


PostPosted: Thu Oct 24, 2024 7:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Works for me. I entered "searches" (without the quotes). Found this post and two others. Maybe try clearing browser cache?


PostPosted: Thu Oct 24, 2024 11:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

On my PC
firefox: 404 error
edge: ok
chrome: ok


PostPosted: Thu Oct 24, 2024 11:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I now using Firefox: no error


PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2024 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Works fine for me on Chrome.

The search engine is arguably not very good at searching through posts though;

E.g.:

- Using the mflenses search engine with the search term "varisoft" finds a handful of posts (a few more if you display the search as "posts" rather than "topics")
- Using the Google search engine with the search term "site:mflenses.com varisoft" finds many, many more mflenses posts that mention the term "varisoft"


PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2024 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

RokkorDoctor wrote:
Works fine for me on Chrome.

The search engine is arguably not very good at searching through posts though;

E.g.:

- Using the mflenses search engine with the search term "varisoft" finds a handful of posts (a few more if you display the search as "posts" rather than "topics")
- Using the Google search engine with the search term "site:mflenses.com varisoft" finds many, many more mflenses posts that mention the term "varisoft"


Only Subjects are indexed. There is no Topics index. Thus forum search finds only Posts and Topics having search term in the Subject. Of course there are more Topics than Posts -- a Post typically has more than one Topic.

Internet search engines will find all the Topics with the search term, including Topics with search term in Signatures. Internet search engines give different results when the search term is quoted, finding only Posts with the search term in the Subject.


PostPosted: Fri Oct 25, 2024 8:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

visualopsins wrote:
RokkorDoctor wrote:
Works fine for me on Chrome.

The search engine is arguably not very good at searching through posts though;

E.g.:

- Using the mflenses search engine with the search term "varisoft" finds a handful of posts (a few more if you display the search as "posts" rather than "topics")
- Using the Google search engine with the search term "site:mflenses.com varisoft" finds many, many more mflenses posts that mention the term "varisoft"


Only Subjects are indexed. There is no Topics index. Thus forum search finds only Posts and Topics having search term in the Subject. Of course there are more Topics than Posts -- a Post typically has more than one Topic.

Internet search engines will find all the Topics with the search term, including Topics with search term in Signatures. Internet search engines give different results when the search term is quoted, finding only Posts with the search term in the Subject.


Ah, that explains! Like 1 small


PostPosted: Sun Oct 27, 2024 2:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Many thanks to all who replied. I was using Firefox. I will have a try with Chrome now.


PostPosted: Sun Oct 27, 2024 3:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

chhayanat wrote:
Many thanks to all who replied. I was using Firefox. I will have a try with Chrome now.


Chrome did not work either. Ah, well.