I was looking for an Excle/vb.net code snippet that I posted a long time ago. I went to advanced search and selected Programming
and code snippets
with the search string Excel
. The only hits that I got were member names containing Excel
. I replaced Excel
with Reverend Jim
and got only my profile. It doesn't seem to be searching anything but user names. Going to google and searching reverend jim excel site:daniweb.com
gives me the correct result.
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Jump to PostStill a month later? Search is sucking large:
https://www.daniweb.com/search/index/0?q=php+mysql#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=php%20mysql&gsc.page=1
Only one result with "php mysql". Most searches I try with my name in them, give no results.
Jump to PostI guess my lack of prioritizing it is because it's literally the exact same search we've had for the past decade, so my feelings are "well, if it brings in money, and no one complained for 10 years, then ..."
However, now that I think about it, it's powered by …
Jump to PostBetter late than never. In house search is back.
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Dani
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diafol
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I prefer using directly google to search this forum with the `site:daniweb.com` filter.
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Reverend Jim
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Ditto
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diafol
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Heh heh, perhaps my PITA posts have borne fruit!
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Dani
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Awesome.
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rproffitt
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It's a great search, it's absolutely fantastic. It has all the best words. It's going to be great.
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