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Search function issue

chasm · 2024-09-26 14:25:08

I'm not sure if this is known issue or not, due to the fact that it's related to the search function results!. All results are unrelated to the words I search. For example, I searched "Coal", and all results highlight words like Goal and Call, no results appear for the word I searched. This despite the fact there is at…

26-09-2024 03:25PM

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I'm not sure if this is known issue or not, due to the fact that it's related to the search function results!.
All results are unrelated to the words I search. For example, I searched "Coal", and all results highlight words like Goal and Call, no results appear for the word I searched. This despite the fact there is at least 1 thread on boards dedicated to Coal bargains!

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#2 28-09-2024 10:17AM

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Add quotation marks to your search i.e. search "coal" not coal. You'll still get results like "coalition", but not "goal" or "call"
TBH, you're better off using Google and appending site:boards.ie to your search. The built-in search is poor at the best of times, but specifically at the moment, large parts of the database are not indexed by the search, so won't be returned by the search no matter what you do.

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