Support Team Shaun_E Posted January 8, 2019 Support Team Share Posted January 8, 2019 Beta of google search of the site: https://www.lotus7.club/google-searchIt currently includes adverts as the first few results because that is the price of a free search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rj Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Use Firefox and AdBlockPlus. Job done :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomB Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Seems to work well, certainly an improvement on the current built in search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbird Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 yep seems to work and if running adblock , in chrome anyway, no adds visible, can the link be embedded on the page somewhere ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_s Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 I'm trying to contact Chris Bramhall, the Comp Sec to understand when I will be able to enter the 20th April 2019 Goodwood Sprint but the site Search facility can't find his user name so that I can send him a message.Can anybody help me with this please. Regards, Peter Seldon User name peter_s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Jonathan Kay Posted January 8, 2019 Member Share Posted January 8, 2019 Private Message sent.Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comp Sec Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 Petermy contact details are all over the competitors area on the forum , and tge contacts page.Its chris bramallemail compsec@lotus7.clubmob 07720 05931You need to have entered the championship, and regs for each event will be emailed out to the mailing list once the organiser has issued them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthonym Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 the test search function doesn't seem to find old stuff I know was there.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthonym Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 and the sad destruction of my earliest work:https://www.lotus7.club/forum/chitchat/my-first-week-7er-diaryand a vast number of blat routes have "disappeared"I see I had a go at fixing this one, the corrected text is at the top and the shambles it was is shown beneath; it was rendered useless.These routes were posted "live" on the fly from the road, with videos and pics, links all gone - i s t r we didn't have smart phones back then or even sat nav. https://www.lotus7.club/forum/chitchat/blat-routes-pyrenees-1-lourdesgazost-pics-now-addedand the mother (i.e. the index laboriously cross and back linked) of all those routes was this one, https://www.lotus7.club/forum/chitchat/blat-routes-index-pyrennees-france-italy-norway-sweden-finlandthe original trip got slightly extended over the years and to the opposite end of Europe, some destinations suggested by Blatchaters.However, all gone (try searching for blat routes) now and so with it my motivation to share since all that time and effort (while on tour) has been roundly destroyed after so many assurances it would not be.The irony is that while now blatchat is seen as a core aspect of the club, back then it was seen as risk to be managed. Done that all right. Someone from above (i.e. trying to fix the system) suggested I re-edit them all.. better stop here... anthony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrightpayne Posted March 16, 2019 Author Share Posted March 16, 2019 So whats improved??Type in ‘Search Facility’ and this post doesnt appear in the first 10 pages of results.I worked as an MI analyst for 10+ years and never had such poor search results on free text fields using various MI tools (Business Objects, SQL)It does feel like when the membership go quiet about something it goes off the MT radar / action log.Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbird Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 well a few weeks ago a new google based search , similar to mine i guess, was created , and we were supposed to test it, however as I said at the time, if it ain't put in the banner area no one will know it exists and no one will use it, as you say Ian it is incredibly frustrating , especially as the old answer will come back, it works for me as long as you put the right bits in capitals or inside quotes etc etc . the members are not thick, the existing search obviously lacks clarity and efficaciousness (I'm amased that's even a word :-) ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrightpayne Posted July 4, 2019 Author Share Posted July 4, 2019 I’m still having problems with this. Trying to find a marketplace advert I posted titled ‘Low Flying Spring 1998 to 2017’Type in search Low AND Flying AND Spring and I dont even appear as an author? Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leadership Team SLR No.77 Posted July 4, 2019 Leadership Team Share Posted July 4, 2019 Ian, I remember responding to your thread so I've just searched "Low AND Flying AND Stu" then selected yourself as the author and it appeared at the top. I've just posted on it so it's current again.Stu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Support Team Shaun_E Posted July 5, 2019 Support Team Share Posted July 5, 2019 I searched for "Low Flying Spring" and it was the second of two posts returned, the first being this thread.The terms you used in your search are fairly common hence the huge list of returned posts. I used google to do the same search and it returned over 100 threads so you can't just blame the site search for this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrightpayne Posted July 5, 2019 Author Share Posted July 5, 2019 Shaun,did you use quotes “” in the actual search or were they for emphasis in the above post? I didnt use quotes in my search.I used to do a bit of SQL coding and building whizzy excel stuff so understand in intricacies of search criteria!!Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Support Team Shaun_E Posted July 5, 2019 Support Team Share Posted July 5, 2019 Hi Ian - yes the quotes are important. They make the search look for the exact phrase inside the quotes. This does of course mean you have to remember the exact phrase which is usually my problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Support Team Shaun_E Posted July 5, 2019 Support Team Share Posted July 5, 2019 I've just added Google site search to the red menu bar at the top of the screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revilla Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Hi Shaun,Are you sure that's been added correctly?I know the prototype Google site search seemed to work well but a search for VVC 160 across the whole site now turns up precisely 1 result! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revilla Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Straightforward Google search with site:www.lotus7.club brings up a lot more: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Whitley Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 It worked for me (Firefox on Win 10). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revilla Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Works for me now! Was it quietly fixed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 something strange going on If I search for "Rover" I get results back, I I search for "spring" , I get no results Simon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbird Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 only one result for me as well, the search at top of page doesn't work well for my name, no results, my search in my signature line on, Low Flying Spring 1998 to 2017, no speach marks or qualifiers returns correct page of market place as top find and WP entry is 6 post down edited, hmm second and subsequent times i use one at top of page searching for VVC 160, it worked fine , odd and also working on my name now T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Support Team Shaun_E Posted July 6, 2019 Support Team Share Posted July 6, 2019 I've had some strange results with the Google search in the past but just put it down to a glitch. It normally works fine though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbird Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 yep, thanks for bunging it in the banner Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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