For the last couple days I've tried to search for a previous thread that I'd posted to. I don't see it in the Active threads (which of course can simply mean no one else posted to it and it buried itself). However, I *thought* I posted to it. Soooo, I figured I could just perform a Search and use a keyword I know I'd typed (in this case I've tried separately "Sport" and "Distinto") along with poster "w1ngman" and selected "in the last 30 days." And I get...bubcuss....nada . So I figured I'd widen things a bit...no keyword, just "w1ngman" as poster in last 30 days. That has (in the past) proven to show me all my recent threads I'd posted to. Now?...it gives me 3 threads in the last couple days...but its also definitely *not* including all the threads I've posted to in the last week.

Soooo, it begs the question: Is search still goofy?

 

This was reported the other day too cthree is aware of it - it seems not to be adding all posts to the search database or something.

Try this method and see if you can find it:

https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?act=S...sult_type=posts

 

That search effort you linked me to was perfect A-Eagle .

Cheers!

 

Search is always goofy. It works better at some times than others. Search is performed from a copy of the main database located on an entirely separate server. Searching really bogs down the database so running them both on the same sever killed the site. On a separate server it will only kill other searches but not the site as a whole.

The link which keeps both the master and slave databases in sync and up to date is a bit fragile. There is some amount of fault tolerance but if the link is broken for any extended period of time then it's toast. I may need to rebuild the search copy from scratch which is an ugly and time consuming task I don't look forward to. It could take a whole day to do.

 

Not sure if it's related or not, but I have been experiencing A LOT of issues with the search functionality.

I get the following error:

mySQL query error: INSERT INTO ibf_search_results (id,search_date,topic_id,topic_max,sort_key,sort_o rder,member_id,ip_address,post_id,post_max) VALUES ('0d60e5d291bebab83ff72a3712e743e4','1107834738',' 258990,261191,261687,262104,262149,257980','6','la st_post','desc','11004','67.171.29.249','4901385,4 901448,4901489,4901492,4901593,4901633,4901900,490 1923,4901966,4901978,4902127,4902282,4902292,49023 02,4902313,4902381,4902629,4902838,4903021,4903165 ,4903294,4903313,4903318,4903350,4903703,4903818,4 903923,4904319,4904337,4904450,4904574,4904622,490 4840,4904861,4904905,4906116,4905091,4905225,49053 76,4905422,4905455,4905514,4905620,4905664,4905749 ,4905842,4906094,4906118,4906123,4906140,4906220,4 906326,4906378,4906431,4906519,4906531,4906634,490 6668,4906779,4906904,4906977,4907002,4907010,49071 86,4907270,4907272,4907336,4907352,4907362,4907436 ,4907454,4907560,4907562,4907604,4907607,4908071,4 908239,4908350,4908403,4908410,4908458,4908528,490 8547,4908905,4909134,4909168,4909170,4909200,49092 56,4909401,4909481,4909806,4909868,4909874,4909938 ,4910246,4910280,4910407,4910422,4910514','100')

mySQL error:
mySQL error code: 0

 

That may be a transient database error. They happen from time to time. Is this still a problem? What were you searching for?

 

I don't think I've had a successful search the last 3 or so days.

I've been usually searching by keyword of "deal", "invoice", "2005 invoice" or "good deal" with everything else default most of the times.

In fact, prior to posting this, I got the issue again.

 

ARGH, sorry to vent my frustration, but I haven't completed a darn search forever and it's really bothering me!!! Anything being done to rectify this?

 

In the meantime, try using Google and type in:

"site: s2ki.com xx xx"

xx = search terms

That works a WHOLE lot better then trying to use the search tool.

 

except that google haven't necessarily indexed everything