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Made in se
Glorious Lord of Chaos






The burning pits of Hades, also known as Sweden in summer

Dakkadakka's forum search seems... well, a bit useless. It never seems to yield much of anything at all.

For example, a search down in 40k Tactics for 'ovesa', 'O'Vesa' or 'o'vesa' all yield the same result, this.



Meanwhile, google gives this:

https://www.google.se/search?q=dakkadakka+o%27vesa&oq=dakkadakka+o%27vesa&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60j69i64.4126j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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Made in us
Last Remaining Whole C'Tan






Pleasant Valley, Iowa

I've always found search to be a bit hit and miss.

I suggest googling "O'Vesa" site:dakkadakka.com instead. Put whatever phrase you want in quotes, and then append site:dakkadakka.com to restrict it to the domain, which is what it looks like you were already trying to do with the search the way you phrased it.



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 lord_blackfang wrote:
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Made in se
Glorious Lord of Chaos






The burning pits of Hades, also known as Sweden in summer

I wasn't really looking for O'vesa in particular, it was just a good example that leapt to mind as I knew it was a subject that has had a lot of discussion in the past.

Does this have anything to do with the domain move? I saw something be mentioned about it messing with search but that was last summer.

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Made in us
[MOD]
Solahma






RVA

Yeah the search function is pretty poor and I know legoburner has been tinkering with it for ages. It tends to sink in priority on his to-do list because there is a completely effective existing alternative (namely Google, as described above) unlike many (most?) other problems. I find the Dakka Dakka search is ok if you limit yourself to a single term.

FWIW:

site:https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/forums/show/18.page "o'vesa"

on Google yields no results (that's a search specific to 40k Tactics)

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Made in gb
[ADMIN]
Decrepit Dakkanaut






London, UK

Yeah when we moved/upgraded servers last year, the search engine database needed to be rebuilt for all 10 million posts, and it cant do that while the site is live due to archaic technical reasons. To make the search engine work properly I either need to rewrite the whole search engine, or shut down Dakka for about 4-5 days to allow the index to be rebuilt.

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Made in us
[DCM]
Dankhold Troggoth






Shadeglass Maze

Maybe try during the World Cup...? Most of the world will be shut down, anyway

I'm only half joking, I'd be willing to forgo Dakka for half a week to get search back!

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Made in us
Last Remaining Whole C'Tan






Pleasant Valley, Iowa

Why fix it at all? Why not just redirect the search URL to a page with a google search widget? Pretty sure it even ties into your existing Adsense stuff.

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 lord_blackfang wrote:
Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.

 Flinty wrote:
The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
 
   
Made in gb
[ADMIN]
Decrepit Dakkanaut






London, UK

That will likely be what ends up happening, though it wont index any of the private forums and google does not index quite as deep as a correctly working integrated search option does unfortunately.

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