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Please please help - 12/6/2016 8:19:57 AM

Chris21wen

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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

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RE: Please please help - 12/6/2016 8:33:05 AM

wdolson

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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.

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RE: Please please help - 12/6/2016 11:27:57 AM

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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.

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RE: Please please help - 12/6/2016 9:21:02 PM

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quote:

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

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RE: Please please help - 12/7/2016 12:22:05 AM

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

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RE: Please please help - 12/7/2016 12:49:13 AM

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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" .

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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.

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RE: Please please help - 12/7/2016 6:36:15 AM

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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.

Might never need to post again.

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RE: Please please help - 12/7/2016 6:49:25 AM

Chris21wen

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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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