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[slimslob]

Surely the site admin should have been a bit more concerned when he announced that we may have lost all the old site data and decades of knowledge thrown down the drain.

It is still here. There are currently nearly 1 million posts on CTN. In the couple of Forums I checked, there are topics with start dates going all the way back to January 27.2005. Aneurysm's join date is January 26.2005. Other than when posts for periods of 1 to 5 days that have been due to a system restoration from a clean safety backup. One was the current transition to the newest software. One other was due to damage caused by hackers.

If you have a problem using Google, complain to Google, I doubt if ti will help. They are too busy pushing their political news stories.

[Tricky]

If you have a problem using Google, complain to Google.

That made my day thanks.

[Gift]

I agree, previous a quick google search for a copier fault or error code would bring you to this site. Now sadly it will simply point us to dead links. Decades of history gone, terrible.

Don't worry and have a little patience, google will notice the changes on the forum sooner or later and start re-crawling the content over time.

Aneurysm

You might be able to give google a hint to speed things up:

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/ask-google-to-recrawl

[Aneurysm]

You might be able to give google a hint to speed things up:

Thanks for the recommendation. It's a work in progress but we're starting to see results, Google has our sitemaps and is busy indexing everything. We've also made good progress on removing bad results. We tested with the Panasonic forum and now we're just waiting for Google to finish removing the rest of the bad URLs. You can test by Googling "site:copytechnet.com Panasonic" and see results with just about 100% working links. It will take a while for Google to get everything reindexed but at least the bad links issue should quiet down.

[femaster]

Not sure if this will help:

https://developers.google.com/search...gle-to-recrawl

You might be able to give google a hint to speed things up:

https://developers.google.com/search...gle-to-recrawl

It's OK, you can steal my idea. I won't hold it against you. ?

[tsbservice]

So far nothing Konica Minolta related can be found. Just YouTube or other meaningless sites shits.
Not sure what to do....
????

[Gift]

It's OK, you can steal my idea. I won't hold it against you. ?

Sorry I missed that - let's just say "great minds think alike"

tsbservice

All you can do is wait. I also find this inconvenient but I guess we have to sit it out.

[Tricky]

So far nothing Konica Minolta related can be found. Just YouTube or other meaningless sites shits.
Not sure what to do....
???

At least the dead links are gone.

[Gift]

According to some admin reports it's not unusual if it takes 3-7 weeks. It is also important that google thinks the content and website is "relevant" - algorythms doesn't treat all websites equally. Guess we'll have to wait and see and start worry if there's no noticeable progress after ~2 month after the relaunch date.

[Gift]

I just ried searching via google and I see way more results, guess the crawling work is almost complete

[Tricky]

I just ried searching via google and I see way more results, guess the crawling work is almost complete

It's better, but a search for 59.f0 in HP brings up nothing.

[tsbservice]

It's not working. I can't find anything.
Simple Google search which before always returned first 7-8 results from CTN now returns stupid YouTube videos, error codes sites and such!
It's absolute nightmare.

[Aneurysm]

No promises, but we might have good news on our search issue in about 10 days.

[doktor]

No promises, but we might have good news on our search issue in about 10 days.

I really hope so!

[mrfuser]

Why can we not just have a search button in each forum as before?