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  1. MCS02

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    #2 MCS02, Feb 16, 2018
    No search works. That’s why on MA we don’t tell people to do a search before asking a question.
     
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    #3 Sully, Feb 16, 2018
    Fair enough - I’ll look into the other one..
     
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    #4 Rainman768, Feb 18, 2018
    A search for dirty mini or secret sauce produced good results but yeah a search for r58 resulted in a user profile and "r58" gave "The search could not be completed because the search keywords were too short, too long, or too common."
     
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    #5 Sully, Feb 18, 2018
    Yea you can’t search for three letters... elastic search fixes that but it’s both server changes and platform. Working on that. We need to be able to search for R and F codes.. glad you found the other things. Good feedback. :)
     
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    #6 Sully, Mar 20, 2018
    Appears there is a bug in the "Search" function. Essentially many times when you first do your search, it will come back with zero results. Then you do it again and it works. I'm researching this one.
     
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    #7 Sully, Apr 20, 2018
    Working on the search engine this weekend. I found a new "search" that is used by much larger sites. I've done the initial back end setup. Currently its indexing the site. Once that is done there is some additional configuration that needs to be completed. It essentially replaces the default search with a new search engine. Based on my research it should produce about 10X the results and be much faster. Hopefully this will be completed by the end of this weekend. Once its up and running on the site I will update this thread.
     
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    #8 MCS02, Apr 20, 2018
    I do not share your optimism. I have never seen a search work well. Ok maybe Google, but they are evil. :D
     
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    #9 Sully, Apr 20, 2018
    Have to try... :)
     
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    #10 Sully, Apr 28, 2018
    OK - the new Search functionality should be up and running now.... give it a try and let me know if you see any issues. You should find the results to be MUCH better than before. Let me know... as always, feedback appreciated. :D