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Re: Searching the forum

Postby AJG » Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:03 pm

trishan wrote:
AJG wrote:This also ties in with your question about searching the forums Trishan, it seems Google doesn't index the forum content, only Board index pages show up in ANY search I tried...

ie [grand final site:888plforum.com.au] returns ZERO results, so does [trishan], so you don't have to worry about that mate ;)

Bit surprised by this TBH...

And you do have to be logged in to use the forum builtin search, and that includes the 'View Active Topics' also.


Yeh that's pretty good that it doesn't.


trishan wrote:
bennymacca wrote:is it possible to add a google search to the forum?

the existing search is bad, it ignores every second word just about


That would be pretty handy dandy.


What the??
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Re: Searching the forum

Postby trishan » Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:10 pm

AJG wrote:
trishan wrote:
AJG wrote:This also ties in with your question about searching the forums Trishan, it seems Google doesn't index the forum content, only Board index pages show up in ANY search I tried...

ie [grand final site:888plforum.com.au] returns ZERO results, so does [trishan], so you don't have to worry about that mate ;)

Bit surprised by this TBH...

And you do have to be logged in to use the forum builtin search, and that includes the 'View Active Topics' also.


Yeh that's pretty good that it doesn't.


trishan wrote:
bennymacca wrote:is it possible to add a google search to the forum?

the existing search is bad, it ignores every second word just about


That would be pretty handy dandy.


What the??


Oops lol - meant to quote benny the cunt's suggestion to add Google search to forum.
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Re: Searching the forum

Postby AJG » Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:46 pm

You did...
Just in 1 topic say its good that google doesnt index the content, but at the same time in another thread, that google search of the forums is a good idea??

You cant have it both ways dude... :)
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Re: Searching the forum

Postby trishan » Wed Aug 11, 2010 9:53 pm

AJG wrote:You did...
Just in 1 topic say its good that google doesnt index the content, but at the same time in another thread, that google search of the forums is a good idea??

You cant have it both ways dude... :)


Really? So if you use Google search on the site then google will automatically index stuff?

What about if we used a relative no name search engine? I remember a Web Wombat back in the day lol
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