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  • Ginbolero
    Technician
    • Apr 2013
    • 41

    Having trouble with search.

    Hi all. Is it me or is the search on this forum not very good?

    I may be doing something wrong but the results bear almost no relevence to my search key words.
    Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
  • Aneurysm
    Administrator

    1,000+ Posts
    • Jan 2005
    • 1027

    #2
    Hi Ginbolero, welcome to Copytechnet.com!
    "Remain calm. All is well." -Chip Diller, Nov 1963

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    • Hansoon
      Field Supervisor

      Site Contributor
      2,500+ Posts
      • Sep 2007
      • 3293

      #3
      Re: Having trouble with search.

      Gimbolero, this is a known issue since years.

      try this link from one of our collegues:

      301 Moved Permanently

      (Those Brits are driving the wrong side of the road, but I must say they know how to make a clever search thingy.... LOL)

      Hans
      " Sent from my Intel 80286 using MS-DOS 2.0 "

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      • Ginbolero
        Technician
        • Apr 2013
        • 41

        #4
        Re: Having trouble with search.

        Perfect. Thank you :-)

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        • Synaux
          Service Manager

          Site Contributor
          1,000+ Posts
          • Mar 2012
          • 1224

          #5
          Re: Having trouble with search.

          Welcome Ginbolero!

          Thanks Hansoon!

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          • John Kaufmann
            Trusted Tech

            Site Contributor
            100+ Posts
            • Sep 2013
            • 103

            #6
            Re: Having trouble with search.

            Originally posted by Ginbolero
            Hi all. Is it me or is the search on this forum not very good? ... the results bear almost no relevance to my search key words...
            An old problem, as Hans said, and his solution will help. However, note that it's just a control for a script to pass the search to google.com, using Google's "site:" parameter pointed to "copytechnet.com" -- so you can do that yourself:
            Code:
            <search terms> site:copytechnet.com[/]
            (trailing slash "/" is shown as optional)

            That's especially useful if you want to narrow your search for better granularity. For example, if your interest is Canon copiers or printers, you can correspondingly narrow the search domain:
            Code:
            <search terms> site:copytechnet.com/forums/canon[/]
            ([BTW: If you look on the Home page under "Technical Forums", you will see "Copier Technical Discussion" and "Fax & Printer Technical Discussion", each with a "Canon" category - but both link to the same place. I believe Canon is the only brand for which that is true.)

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