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[Closed] How can Google get site search so wrong?

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I know it's been done before, but....

A) What was wrong with the orignal search engine that worked great? (actually I think I know..... no advertising income)

B) How can the Google site search be so crap when everything else they do is so good? - I can't find anything!

It's so bad I don't even bother trying to use it now - which in turn puts me off using the forum.


 
Posted : 22/03/2010 8:48 am
 DezB
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Apparently its going back to the old way... one day.
We'll proably have to wait for a site hack for any change to be made 😉


 
Posted : 22/03/2010 8:52 am
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Simple and reasonable answer - the 'proper' search was causing the site to grind to a halt. They've said they're working on a fix but in the mean time, the google search will have to do.


 
Posted : 22/03/2010 8:57 am
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Just use a normal Google search rather than the one here

search for [b][i]site: singletrackworld.com "wot tires"[/i][/b] etc.

you can then filter the results


 
Posted : 22/03/2010 9:11 am
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The main problem with the google search is the lack of sorting by posting date - particularly for the classifieds.


 
Posted : 22/03/2010 9:13 am
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Does it use Google Mini?


 
Posted : 22/03/2010 9:19 am