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Chris21wen -> Please please help (12/6/2016 8:19:57 AM)

I cannot find squat when doing a search of the AE forum, even a google search finds nothing. This situation is beginning to tee me off in the extreme. I know Matrix have a major problem but google should work.

This is what I'm using for google as per another post.

site:http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/+"War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition" (your search term)

If I remove /+"War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition it works but it's searching all forums. So what the h&*& an I doing wrong. I should add I've tried removing the + sign



wdolson -> RE: Please please help (12/6/2016 8:33:05 AM)

Google's syntax doesn't require and I don't think it supports the plus sign. I usually find what I'm looking for with just

site:http://www.matrixgames.com/forums search terms

This sub-forum is such a dominant part of the Matrix forums that it usually brings up hits from this forum, but doing

site:http://www.matrixgames.com/forums "War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition" search terms

would narrow things down a bit.

Bill



Bullwinkle58 -> RE: Please please help (12/6/2016 11:27:57 AM)

The syntax posted long ago by witpqs was:

site:matrixgames.com +"War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition >> Tech Support" crash

so you've got extra slashes and such.

The Tech Support piece just refines the search to a named sub-forum if you know where the item you want would have been posted. It gives fewer returns. If you don't use it I believe the close quotes go after Edition.

This format works for me today and always has.



warspite1 -> RE: Please please help (12/6/2016 9:21:02 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Chris H

I cannot find squat when doing a search of the AE forum, even a google search finds nothing. This situation is beginning to tee me off in the extreme. I know Matrix have a major problem but google should work.

This is what I'm using for google as per another post.

site:http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/+"War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition" (your search term)

If I remove /+"War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition it works but it's searching all forums. So what the h&*& an I doing wrong. I should add I've tried removing the + sign
warspite1

Its been that way for me for a few weeks now - and its not just the WITP-AE forum; its all forums. The search function no longer seems to work at all [:(].



PaxMondo -> RE: Please please help (12/7/2016 12:22:05 AM)

As Alfred noted in another recent thread on this, searching by author works ... but little else ...



glyphoglossus -> RE: Please please help (12/7/2016 12:49:13 AM)

The plus ("+") sign tells Google that the search term has to be present in the results (as opposed to just increasing its score/ranking if it happens to be present), while words in quotes, of course, searches for the entire phrase as opposed to each word individually.

I have had quite a bit of success with this formula to search for, e.g. posts with "training" and/or "mission": 

site:matrixgames.com +"War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition" training mission


Or, more strictly (each result must have BOTH "training" AND "mission"): 

site:matrixgames.com +"War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition" +training +mission


Or, even more strictly (each result must have the exact phrase "training mission"): 

site:matrixgames.com +"War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition" +"training mission"


What is challenging is telling Google to find posts by author, e.g. Depending on things, you can just do: 

site:matrixgames.com +"War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition" +Alfred training mission


but, of course, this returns any page with "Alfred" on it anywhere, rather than post specifically by "Alfred" mentioning "training" .




rustysi -> RE: Please please help (12/7/2016 1:52:35 AM)

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but, of course, this returns any page with "Alfred" on it anywhere, rather than


Well what's wrong with that. Just read all of it and you're good to go.[:D]



Chris21wen -> RE: Please please help (12/7/2016 6:36:15 AM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: rustysi

quote:

but, of course, this returns any page with "Alfred" on it anywhere, rather than


Well what's wrong with that. Just read all of it and you're good to go.[:D]


Might never need to post again.



Chris21wen -> RE: Please please help (12/7/2016 6:49:25 AM)

I've found the real culpret. I copied and pasted all into a search and they worked except mine.

I needed a space before the the +sign. First time I can remember where nothing has been of benifit.

Thanks



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