Search Posts Older Than 1 Year ??

[Hakim]

I just searched on two terms that I know go back several years.

"Brown recluse" brought back several hundreds posts to 08-20-2002 08:51 PM;

and "Steve Carver" returned results to 04-11-2000 07:02 PM.

So apparently your query was giving too many results, or some other issue.

Generally speaking the database are re-indexed nightly. It may be that the current day's results are off for 24 hours. But overall I think we have 99%+ of the history intact.

Ibrahim is the one in charge of the indexes (among many other things) .

 

[kozak]

Well it took me about 45 minutes but I finally found proof of a software glitch in the search utility.

Type in "Cab".....reports back to 9-26-2006

Type in "Enclosure"......reports back to 7-21-2000, HOWEVER, if you check a subject thread regarding "CABS" on page #3.............

(http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...cab-does-anyone-have.html?highlight=enclosure)

.......you will notice posts using the word "CAB" many times.

I tried the same thing with "fel" versus "loader" but could not find the same discrepancy but I am sure it exists. I find it very hard to believe that between 2000 & present, only one person used the acronym "fel" in 2004 & all other cases are found just in the last 3 months of this year.


Looks like Ibrahim has his work cut out for him in the new year !!!!


Good Luck,

Vic

 

[kozak]

Just happened to be reviewing old posts for search word "Enclosure" & found a post dating back in 2002 using acronym "fel"

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...oval-blade-vs-blower.html?highlight=enclosure

 

[Dusty]

I just want to know who "Do Not Delete" is, because he has made about 5000 posts, signed them with a lot of different names, and in some instances, he has answered his own questions. Kind of reminds me of someone else who posts now.

 

[Hakim]

Just happened to be reviewing old posts for search word "Enclosure" & found a post dating back in 2002 using acronym "fel"

We'll look into it.

 

[AndyM]

Hakim,
I noticed sporatic issues the othe day during various searches. Some of them would go back to 2000, and others would only bring back results back to only a few months ago. I'll give examples if I can get it to happen again.

Thanks!



EDIT:
I just did a search on "Farmall Cub" and only returned 13 results, the earliest being 9/26/2006.

 

[AndyM]

I just want to know who "Do Not Delete" is, because he has made about 5000 posts, signed them with a lot of different names, and in some instances, he has answered his own questions. Kind of reminds me of someone else who posts now.

A few months after I first registered here at TBN, there were several of us who had to re-register. While our posts weren't lost, the poster's name for all of our previous posts showed up as "poster" under the old software. I'm going to assume that is who "Do not delete" is under the vBulletin software.

If I recall correctly, I first registered here in February 2003 and re-registered in July 2003. I think anyone who signed up during that time period had posts that were affected.

 

[AndyM]

Hakim...

I just did a search on "Farmall Cub" and only returned 13 results, the earliest being 9/26/2006.

Is there any news on the search issues?

I was looking for a thread tonight Junkman and I posted in two or three years ago, where we were discussing how half-gallon ice cream cartons now only contained 1.75 quarts... I searched for ice cream and the results only went back to 10-23-2006.

Thanks!

 

[DaNag]

The problem likely has to do with search word length.

I requested a while back, that search terms be allowed for words with as few as three characters.

Muhammad changed the default search to allow this on 9/26/06, which is why the three letter search terms mentioned in this thread only show results since then - those of you getting results prior to 9/26/06 are querying on terms greater than three characters.

It appears posts prior to that date have not been reindexed with the three character minimum search term.