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Old 08-09-2020, 08:39 AM
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Cannot get it to work effectively. Searches don't work. I know it was recently changed and moved to the top of the page.
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Old 08-09-2020, 08:43 AM
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Cannot get it to work effectively. Searches don't work. I know it was recently changed and moved to the top of the page.
Seems normal to me. What topic are you looking for?
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Old 08-09-2020, 08:46 AM
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Both search functions work for me. What isn't working?
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Old 08-09-2020, 09:08 PM
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I've long felt the Google search function on the forum to be hit or miss, with it seldom landing the results I'm looking for (which is usually specific for-sale posts in the classifieds forum). I've had better success using the legacy forum search feature.

To do a little test of the Google search, I found Marcury's post titled "Die-Cast Stickers" here in Open Mic just before posting this. I figured there probably weren't too many threads with such a specific topic. The Google search for that exact thread title returned 16 results, none of which included his post. The legacy forum search had it as the first result.

If I really want to find something on the forum, I usually abandon the forum's options all together and do a "site:www.acousticguitarforum.com/forums" search proceeded by my search terms directly on the Google homepage. It's strange that an external Google search works better for me than the forum's own Google custom search.

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Google's site-specific custom Programmable Search Engine (PSE) isn't as robust as their full web search, one limitation in particular being real-time results - the "Die-Cast Stickers" thread was posted 90 minutes ago (as of this post), so PSE won't see it until the site is re-indexed.
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Old 08-09-2020, 11:39 PM
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Google's site-specific custom Programmable Search Engine (PSE) isn't as robust as their full web search, one limitation in particular being real-time results - the "Die-Cast Stickers" thread was posted 90 minutes ago (as of this post), so PSE won't see it until the site is re-indexed.
I love learning something new. Thanks for dropping the re-indexing knowledge, Jeremy!

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