"Search" not working?

Ben Lund · Post by **Ben Lund** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:04 pm

I think I'm losing my mind. I can't use the "search" tab to find posts/keywords that show in threads older than a few months. Am I doing something wrong?

E_Page · Post by **E_Page** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:41 am

Seems to work OK for me this morning, but I've had inconsistent problems with other parts of the website since they updated it. Try again, checking the spelling of your search term(s).

Ben Lund · Post by **Ben Lund** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:45 am

OK, for instance, when I type in "easement" I only get 5 threads. Am I doing something wrong?

E_Page · Post by **E_Page** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:55 am

I tried a variety of terms. The oldest posts that come up are 11/14/09. Maybe it only searches back 2 months. That would be unfortunate. It used to go back much farther.

Steve Martin · Post by **Steve Martin** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:33 am

Ben,

Check out this other thread:

http://www.californiasurveyors.org/clsa ... ght=Search

Blake suggests using google to search the archives.

This may be on the old version of the web site and I do not know how long CLSA is going to keep the old site up.

pls7809 · Post by **pls7809** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:33 am

I think CLSA needs to create an archive for these older forum posts as there is a huge amount of helpful information that has been discussed in the past. I hope they don't let the old posts disappear completely. If many had known that by creating the new site, we would lose our old forum posts, I'm sure there would have been a lot of resistence. The new site is great, but CLSA needs to save the old posts and provide a way to search and access them.

Ben Lund · Post by **Ben Lund** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:17 pm

Thanks Steve, that's what I needed!

Lee Hixson · Post by **Lee Hixson** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 5:17 am

What do you mean by "search the archives?" What archives?

pls7809 · Post by **pls7809** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:53 am

The old posts, from before the CLSA site changed recently, do not come up in a search on this site. You have to go to Google to get to the old posts.

Lee Hixson · Post by **Lee Hixson** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:57 am

Sorry, but I don't understand the mechanics of what this means. I'm very familiar with Google. So, using the example from Ben, you just type in "easement" in the Google search bar and that's supposed to magically rummage through the CLSA archives? That's going to bring up 10 million hits or more. Sorry for being dense, but I don't get it.

pls7809 · Post by **pls7809** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:01 am

The mechanics of how to do it are in the link that Steve posted above.

subman · Post by **subman** » Thu Jan 14, 2010 11:31 am

Use the "Advanced Search" option in Google. At the bottom of the "Advanced Search" form where it says "Search within a site or domain", enter www.californiasurveyors.org/

Then in the "all these words" box, fill in your search term/s. Your 10,000 responses will be reduced to just hits from the CLSA forum pertaining to your search term/s. Hope this helps!

Lee Hixson · Post by **Lee Hixson** » Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:18 am

So we need to jump through these extra hoops, why? This is the only forum I use that has this issue. Why can't someone just go into the program and fix it so it works right?