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Old Nov 19th, 2002 | 10:00 AM
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Gremlins at Fodors?

I have been getting the following message each time I try to search for United Kingdom topics on the Europe Forum <BR>&quot;Europe<BR>Topic(s) - Wyoming <BR>Sorry -- we couldn't find anything that fit your search. Please change your criteria and try again &quot;<BR>Well of course my 'topic' can't be found!! But I AM NOT typing &quot; Wyoming&quot; in the search box. Anyone else experiencing gremlins at work?<BR>
 
Old Nov 19th, 2002 | 10:03 AM
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Yeah, can't look up my interest: Hilton hotel Kensington, London, UK. The search function must be down..
 
Old Nov 19th, 2002 | 10:05 AM
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The US board is having a similar problem except that all searches there produce threads on Alabama.
 
Old Nov 19th, 2002 | 10:07 AM
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I had a similar glitch yesterday, scrolling back - - after about 11 pages, it suddenly jumoed to &quot;page two&quot; of the Asia forum.<BR><BR>There is a bug in their database (perhaps related to the indexing &quot;holes&quot - - and it is not an enviable job to try to find and fix something like this.<BR><BR>All we can do is &quot;bear with&quot;...<BR><BR>Best wishes,<BR><BR>Rex<BR>
 
Old Nov 19th, 2002 | 10:11 AM
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I tried to search for Turkey and got a message that they couldn't find anything that fit my search for Lesotho!
 
Old Nov 19th, 2002 | 10:26 AM
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I just did a search and the responses seemed appropriate for my key word.<BR>Perhaps the B-Tree, or what ever Fodors uses, that indexes key terms was rebuilt in the interim.<BR>It is 2:26 PM on my clock, on Nov 19<BR>.<BR>
 
Old Nov 19th, 2002 | 10:28 AM
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Well, the indexing itself is certainly not updated. Stuck at November 11.<BR><BR>I think that the &quot;gremlin&quot; is something very hard to find; hard even to reproduce.<BR>
 
Old Nov 19th, 2002 | 10:31 AM
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Nope not fixed yet, Bob ... I am still in Wyoming at 2:31 US EST.
 
Old Nov 19th, 2002 | 11:23 AM
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I just did a search on the keyword Paris, and the most recent response was about 2:15 PM on 11/19. That is today, Tuesday, the nineteenth of November, right?<BR>So I concluded that indexing was resonably up to date. If postings from today are included in the indexing tree, I don't see the problem.<BR><BR>It is not right up to the second, or even the minute, but it up to date on the day, even the afternoon of today.<BR><BR>Also, I plugged in London, and also got responses that had 11/19/2002 for a date and 2:41 PM for a time. <BR><BR>I do not know how thorough the index is for any subject. But I am not going to waste any more time on what seems to be a non problem.<BR>
 
Old Nov 19th, 2002 | 11:27 AM
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Too bad that a France search yiedls Albania...god I hope not!
 
Old Nov 19th, 2002 | 11:29 AM
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The problem with the search function, if I understand correctly, is that it won't retrieve any threads that were started after 11/11. It will retrieve threads that were started before then but added to more recently, even as recently as today.
 
Old Nov 19th, 2002 | 11:51 AM
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exactly. Search for Corleone.<BR>
 
Old Nov 19th, 2002 | 12:23 PM
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Try searching on Albania -- you'll find France there I just did and did ...<BR><BR>I am laughing out loud here!!
 
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