What's up with the Joomla forums search engine

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What's up with the Joomla forums search engine

Post by patrickegan » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:17 pm

When I try to search the forums, No matter what I type I get

Your query was not specific enough. Try using larger words, or less common phrases.

Is there any other way to search since this one is apparently not working?
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Re: What's up with the Joomla forums search engine

Post by brad » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:22 pm

Please see: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,73599.0.html

As well as plenty of other threads on the subject.
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Re: What's up with the Joomla forums search engine

Post by brian » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:32 pm

It has been suggested that google is bettwr at searcing this forum than the forum itself

Try it for yourself by comparing the results of searching the forum got joomladay and ding the same with google
http://www.google.com/search?q=joomlada ... joomla.org


Then just replace joomladay in the url above with your search word

Bizaare I know but it does seem to work

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Re: What's up with the Joomla forums search engine

Post by brad » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:35 pm

I hope this will be fixed up in SMF 1.1 Stable.. ;)
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