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johnrellis
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May 3, 2009
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Another search bug

  • May 3, 2009
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Searching for "virus scanning forums ellis" fails to find a message I posted containing all of the search terms:

But searching for "virus scanning forums", without the term "ellis", does find the message:

Google also finds the message with the full query, "virus scanning forums ellis".

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    Ramón G Castañeda
    Inspiring
    May 3, 2009

    See:

    http://forums.adobe.com/message/1934159#1934159

    johnrellis
    Legend
    May 3, 2009

    Thanks for the reference to the other discussion.

    It also appears that the Who field of More Options is completely ignored:

    Ramón G Castañeda
    Inspiring
    May 3, 2009

    johnrellis wrote:

    It also appears that the Who field of More Options is completely ignored:

    more options.PNG

    Have you tried it with the People box checked?  I have not.

    Ramón G Castañeda
    Inspiring
    May 3, 2009

    Yes, John, we've discussed this earlier.

    The forum search engine, unlike Google's, does not search in the author field of messages, only the body of text in the post itself.

    For the forum search engine to find your posts when you input your name as a keyword, your name would have to be in the text itself, as in a brief signature.

    When the search engine doesn't find one of the keywords in the text, it excludes that post.