Wow, thanks Fodors! Instant indexing!
 

Hi all<BR>I just noticed that something wonderful has happened to the process by which new postings are "indexed" so that they show up when you do a Search here. It used to take a couple of weeks so that to find recent postings on a particular topic you had to keep scrolling down on the left.<BR>I just did a search on the Residenza San Pantaleo and TODAY's posting showed up first in the search results.<BR>Thank you Fodors!

I commented a few days ago, Elaine, on hoe the indexing seems to be keeping up to as little as 24 hours behind. I thought it was 203 days behind yesterday morning - - but if this change is ongoing it is indeed a very positive development.<BR><BR>Best wishes,<BR><BR>Rex<BR>

It's not "real time" instantaneous - - at least not yet. You can't rtetrieve THIS thread with the word "process" as of right this minute.<BR>

Do you need to?

I guess "instant" was an exaggeration on my part, and I didn't realize this was old news.<BR>Still, it helps a lot.

I totally agree. It's a good thing.<BR>

topping, before Martha sinks<BR>

It's nice to be able to pull up recent threads again, but it is still a very, very persnickety indexer. I wanted to find the "pet peeve" thread on the US forum and typed in "peeve." No dice. Typed in "pet" and found it but noticed that "peeves" was the word I should have used. IOW, it has to be letter-for-letter with no additional letters OR, it seems, punctuation -- don't look for "farm" if the only appearance is "farm,". <BR><BR>But I know, if you are at all computer literate, you have to be prepared for all kinds of limitations to search functions. So you are all on your own ingenuity here.

Now here's a really dumb question. Does a search for a particular phrase or town or hotel only give results if that phrase appeared in the subject line of the posts? J.

No

up<BR>

Someone at Fodors might be on vacation. The indexing was doing a great job since this spring with daily or every other day indexing updates, even on the weekend.<BR><BR>But right now it is 6 days behind, so be persistent if you are looking for a recent thread and cannot find it. You just have to keep going back the previous 50, over and over and over.<BR>

hope they will make this a TOP priority.<BR>

Now ten days un-indexed.<BR>

Nothing has been indexed for the past 14 days, as of today.<BR>

With the cleanup getting done, maybe the indexing backlog will get tackled next.<BR>

Or maybe not.<BR>

They didn't do anything about it today.<BR>

Will it come today?