BUG Search playing up again.

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  Jumpingphil11 months, 1 week ago #1Show comment toolsReply

  See the results of this search and you will see two deals from Tesco in the first 5 posts, depending on how many more have been added since this was posted.
  Now do search for micro plus tesco and the two deals are nowhere to be seen.
  
  
  
  
  

  
  Edited By: Jumpingphil on Jun 07, 2012 20:18
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  HeroDeveloper[mod]11 months, 1 week ago #2Show comment toolsReply

  Are you searching literally for "micro plus tesco" without quotes? Or perhaps "micro tesco" without quotes? "+micro +tesco", "micro + tesco", "micro +tesco", and "micro tesco" all return identical results for me.
  

  
  Edited By: HeroDeveloper on Jun 07, 2012 21:36
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  Jumpingphil11 months, 1 week ago #3Show comment toolsReply

  Click on the links to see the yellow bar at the top which shows what the search is.
  
  First link......Advanced Search Results for "+micro +memory"
  Next link......Advanced Search Results for "+micro +tesco"
  
  These were, of course, typed in without the quotes.
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  HeroDeveloper[mod]11 months, 1 week ago #4Show comment toolsReply

  Ah sorry. I have my monitor set very dim, and I use Fl.ux so I didn't immediately notice the links in there. Thank you, Phil.
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  fanpages11 months, 1 week ago #5Show comment toolsReply

  HeroDeveloper

  Ah sorry. I have my monitor set very dim, and I use Fl.ux so I didn't immediately notice the links in there. Thank you, Phil.

  
  
  (How about changing the site's Cascading Style Sheet(s) to automatically make links bold?).
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  HeroDeveloper[mod]11 months, 1 week ago1 Like #6Show comment toolsReply

  fanpages

  HeroDeveloper

  Ah sorry. I have my monitor set very dim, and I use Fl.ux so I didn't immediately notice the links in there. Thank you, Phil.

  
  
  (How about changing the site's Cascading Style Sheet(s) to automatically make links bold?).

  
  
  I'll put that in the user request queue. It would help me with my weird set-up :).
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  DBA[admin]11 months, 1 week ago #7Show comment toolsReply

  Thanks for the report JP. It should be fixed now.
  
  Note that it was only affecting the search when the + operator was being used.
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  fanpages11 months, 1 week ago1 Like #8Show comment toolsReply

  HeroDeveloper

  I'll put that in the user request queue. It would help me with my weird set-up :).

  
  
  Thanks HD... however, note the issue with comment #2 in the same thread:
  
  [ http://www.hotukdeals.com/feedback/--1021886?p=12317595 ]
  
  (Sorry for intruding, Phil)
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  Jumpingphil11 months, 1 week ago1 Like #9Show comment toolsReply

  DBA

  Thanks for the report JP. It should be fixed now.
  
  Note that it was only affecting the search when the + operator was being used.

  
  
  
  Thanks for fixing it, but what is wierd, I did a search for "+micro +amazon", without the quotes, and that seemed to work perfectly well.
  I obviously can't show you that now if the search has been altered.
  
  
  
  And fanpages, it's no problem.
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  DBA[admin]11 months, 1 week ago2 Likes #10Show comment toolsReply

  Jumpingphil

  ... what is wierd, I did a search for "+micro +amazon", without the quotes, and that seemed to work perfectly well...

  
  
  No worries, I believe you. The issue was specific to advanced searching when the term "tesco" was followed by the term "direct" in the text.
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  Jumpingphil11 months, 1 week ago #11Show comment toolsReply

  DBA

  Jumpingphil

  ... what is weird, I did a search for "+micro +amazon", without the quotes, and that seemed to work perfectly well...

  
  
  No worries, I believe you. The issue was specific to advanced searching when the term "tesco" was followed by the term "direct" in the text.

  
  
  
  Thanks for the explanation.
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  junk4[helper]10 months, 3 days ago #12Show comment toolsReply

  Not worth starting another thread, so bumping this.
  
  This deal
  
  http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/despicable-dvd-3-delivered-hmv-1255223
  
  doesn't come up in a search when you use the word "despicable" but it does when you search "me hmv". Which is weird.
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  DBA[admin]10 months, 3 days ago #13Show comment toolsReply

  junk4

  This deal
  
  http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/despicable-dvd-3-delivered-hmv-1255223
  
  doesn't come up in a search when you use the word "despicable" but it does when you search "me hmv". Which is weird.

  
  
  Thanks for the note junk4. Currently, it does show for me... it's the last result for default searching; 7th page of results when including expired deals or 1st page of results without expired deals.
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  fanpages10 months, 3 days ago #14Show comment toolsReply

  ...& a word from Chris Eubank:
  
  
  
  Just typed (well, copied) Despicable Me into the standard "Search" text-box (top right of the "old skin") & two records were in the results set. The deal mentioned by junk4 was the second record.
  
  [ http://www.hotukdeals.com/search?action=search&keywords=Despicable+Me ]
  
  (Text only / Exclude Expired / Online & Offline Deals)
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  junk4[helper]10 months, 2 days ago #15Show comment toolsReply

  If it's not an expired deal and only 2 weeks old, why is it on the last page of results if you do include expired ones? I thought non-expired deals always appeared first in the results?
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  Jumpingphil10 months, 2 days ago #16Show comment toolsReply

  I just typed in despicable into advanced search, and it was 1st result for me. oO
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  junk4[helper]10 months, 2 days ago #17Show comment toolsReply

  And yet not in the standard search. X)
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  fanpages10 months, 2 days ago #18Show comment toolsReply

  junk4

  And yet not in the standard search. X)

  
  
  Check comment #14 again.
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  DBA[admin]10 months, 2 days ago #19Show comment toolsReply

  junk4

  If it's not an expired deal and only 2 weeks old, why is it on the last page of results if you do include expired ones? I thought non-expired deals always appeared first in the results?

  
  
  The active/expired parameter influences the ordering (as do the search term frequency, deal age and temperature), but a deal being expired won't force it to the end of the result set. Having said that, I agree with you in that I'd have expected that deal to be closer to the beginning of the result set than to the end. We'll try and take a closer look at what's happening with the ordering there.
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  fanpages9 months, 6 days ago #20Show comment toolsReply

  HeroDeveloper

  Ah sorry. I have my monitor set very dim, and I use Fl.ux so I didn't immediately notice the links in there. Thank you, Phil.

  fanpages

  (How about changing the site's Cascading Style Sheet(s) to automatically make links bold?).

  
  
  I have just noticed (when quoting this thread elsewhere) that the thread [ http://www.hotukdeals.com/feedback/--1021886 ] has been marked as 'spam'.

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