PD1964 Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 Is there a problem with the Search engine? as it keeps defaulting to "Google" on the option list even when you ask to search topic/forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob-M Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 I found yesterday the only way to stop the search defaulting to Google was to select Topics in the drop down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichM Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 It is, or should be better than the default one though perhaps not from a visual perspective. I implemented it recently after having received poor feedback regarding the existing/default Invision search functionality. Google will only be used when searching "all" content, as alluded to above. If you be more specific as to what you want to search for (e.g. topics), it will revert back to the default search. I have since learned that the next version of Invision is intended to improve the search functionality among other things. I plan to implement this shortly after release hopefully in the coming months. While it will bring some notable changes, it will not be a major software overhaul like we saw last year. More to come on that later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotEver Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 I can’t find anything at all with the search tool st present. I used to be able to. It appears to be completely broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumshie Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 32 minutes ago, WotEver said: It appears to be completely broken. When you click in the search box it'll say google just to the left, click/tap on the word google and it will give you a drop down menu, depending where you are on the site the drop down menu will give you the option of Topics or This Forum, click on either of these then click in the search box and carry on as normal. Hopefully. Unless you use an iPad and then the whole thing merges and there's not a %$&@*$ thing you can do - *calm* But I'm no expert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotEver Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 I’ve done all that but it’s broken. It used to work up until a few days ago but finds diddly squat useful for me now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan_fincher Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 (edited) 14 minutes ago, WotEver said: I’ve done all that but it’s broken. It used to work up until a few days ago but finds diddly squat useful for me now. It will still find stuff for me, but whatever has been done to it in the last few days is intensely annoying. Now before I see any actual results for stuff from the forum, I'm seeing instead attempts to match my search criteria at things like Amazom.com. What on earth is that all about? Could it please be put back as it was! EDITED to show an exanple. If I search for "Cambourne" I see this..... Edited January 31, 2018 by alan_fincher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumshie Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 21 minutes ago, WotEver said: I’ve done all that but it’s broken. It used to work up until a few days ago but finds diddly squat useful for me now. Does it tell you there has been an error an to contact the site admin - or something like that. I get that too but intermittently. Sorry can't help with that one. Tum Tee Tum.... Perhaps someone in charge site settings could put it back they way it was. Tum Tee Tum... Cos actually the search result are not better this new way, but I wonder if pennies are changing hands using this new way, maybe affiliated links perhaps. IDK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotEver Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 I’ll just have to rely on my memory for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan de Enfield Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 1 minute ago, WotEver said: I’ll just have to rely on my memory for now. Using my (somewhat faulty) memory - didn't Rich M post a few days ago that there was going to be a software update but that it shouldn't be as 'major' as the last one was ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumshie Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 On 30/01/2018 at 20:01, RichM said: While it will bring some notable changes, it will not be a major software overhaul like we saw last year. More to come on that later. He did. Well remembered Mr De Enfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotEver Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 11 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said: Using my (somewhat faulty) memory - didn't Rich M post a few days ago that there was going to be a software update but that it shouldn't be as 'major' as the last one was ? Yes but I think he also said something about ‘over the next few months’ so I shan’t hold my breath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan de Enfield Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 Just now, WotEver said: Yes but I think he also said something about ‘over the next few months’ so I shan’t hold my breath. I thought parts may have been implemented in the last few days, resulting in the 'loss' of the search function Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotEver Posted February 1, 2018 Report Share Posted February 1, 2018 9 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said: I thought parts may have been implemented in the last few days, resulting in the 'loss' of the search function I think Rich said he’d tweaked it to ‘make it better’ which, arguably (or not) it has singularly failed to do. Then in due course the next software release will change it again. I suspect the recent tweak has resulted in your pop up Google results For better or worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris J Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 On 30/01/2018 at 18:50, PD1964 said: Is there a problem with the Search engine? as it keeps defaulting to "Google" on the option list even when you ask to search topic/forum. Also Having no fun with the search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichM Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 Thanks all for your feedback. Interested to hear both positive and negative constructive feedback from everyone and we will review shortly. Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WotEver Posted February 11, 2018 Report Share Posted February 11, 2018 On 07/02/2018 at 19:53, RichM said: Thanks all for your feedback. Interested to hear both positive and negative constructive feedback from everyone and we will review shortly. Rich Here’s an example, Rich. I chose advanced search, search by author. I chose ‘Big COL’ as the author and ‘skylight’ as the search term. Two Google hits and not one from Canalworld. I know that there was a long thread which included the word ‘skylight’ both in the posts and in the title, authored by Col, in July last year. There were also several other posts from Col using the same word but not a single hit from the search tool. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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