Apologies. Christin<i>a</i>.

Yes, Christina, you've resolved my confusion--each time I searched I was looking either within Italy or within General Interest.
thanks to you, and to erinb.

and thanks to Clifton for explaining how to get rid of the highlight (I did make a little mistake in my post which I guess was obvious in that I meant the keyword=number thing in the URL is for the country)

Unfortunately, I do search most often within specific countries for something, or regionwide, as most people probably do, and there is the risk of missing something that wasn't posted by selecting something. So now I guess I have to search with nothing highlighted, also.

hi all,

Christina, you are absolutely right. And the reason that I didn't mention that little tidbit was because I have always NEVER selected anything. For some reason I just assumed that you did that if you only wanted limited results to that country.

Yes, if you want it to search the whole europe forum and include ANY country selected when the topic was posted, you would not select anything.

You don't have to do anything just type in the text field and hit find. the minute you click in that country box, you will have to get rid of that highlight, but if you NEVER click in it, it will not be a problem.

I guess I figured if it matched, I would probably want to look at it anyway??(sheepish grin)

Thanks for solving this one, I was having a problem figuring out why elaine couldn't see it, because when I typed in the info, I matched her post every time.

I do know this, as of this morning all three test posts that I put up yesterday came up on my search. What I had done was posted 3 test topics with the words

fabulous reads 1

1st topic/ in the body of 1st reply
2nd topic/in a reply to the message
3rd topic/in the heading of the topic

all three index and came back early this morning.

Now, I have posted that same info in the two older posts, the actual &quot;really fabulous fiction&quot; post, another post on that day that only had 10 replies, and one on 07/14/2000. Let's see what happens tomorrow.

erinb-

You asked, &quot;I am trying to find a way to return search results of more than 50 at a time. Do you know of any way?&quot;

I found a thread that discussed that question and had an answer for a short time in 2001. It doesn't work for me now. Can you make it work?

The message title was &quot;500 messages per Frame!&quot; First posted on 6/24/01, last post 7/8/01. You can find it by searching for &quot;threadsearch scrolled&quot;. ;-)

Sorry - should be &quot;threadselect scrolled&quot;

erinb,

I still can't get &quot;a really fabulous fiction book&quot; to come up during a search, even if I put the exact thread title. I had to manually search down and found it on topic #260. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks for your help.

hi all,

djs, no YOU aren't doing anything wrong.
After five days, that one and the other older test ones are still not being re-indexed.

It looks like the index they are doing is only a limited one. Since that &quot;fabulous&quot; post(the original one) and the other two I did that other test on, were never indexed in the first place, they probably never will be.

This means that group that was never indexed will never show up on any search, nor will any information in any reply to any of those original posts or topics.

Now, there is a possibility that fodor's only re-builds their total index once every so often, so I will check this out in a couple of weeks to be sure.

In the meantime, I will try to get an email about the problem to fodors.

If you want to find that post, the url for that post has been posted on a thread that comes up when you search for the words:

fabulous fiction

look for the topic that state's:

Found it...really fabulous fiction thread. click on the url in that post and the topic will come up.

JED- I am looking at your suggestion and will be trying it out after I post this message. I will let you know how it goes.

Thanks all

Erin, it is usually most useful to select a country when searching because that makes searches a lot easier. For example, you may want to search for a thread mentioning &quot;hotel europe&quot; but you want one with Prague. There is a hotel europe in probably every country in europe, so it is a lot easier to use the country selection button in most cases. That's one obvious example, but I use it all the time as it makes for better searches. In Elaine's example, she knew that post was about Italy, so searching on &quot;helpful information&quot; and selecting Italy was the normal thing to do, you wouldn't usually make such a general search without selecting a country as you'd get many more threads than you need.

That post not being indexed to any country or &quot;regionwide&quot;, which is not apparently the same thing, is unusual.

Thanks, erinb. And thanks for the link. I'm printing the thread out so I won't lose it.