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POSTED BY: a1 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Is it just for me? or does the search bar just throw up randon disordered results.

It seems everytime I want to find a deal from a couple of days previous it never shows, and the order of results can be 1 day , 12days then 4 hours ago.

I was trying to find a deal for a Hotel in London (Holborn) i think it was 5 star, the picture was of a swimming pool and the deal was for over the xmas period.

Even if its expired it just does not show on my results, have tried...Hotel..Hotel 5*....Hotel Holborn....Hotel London....Hotel December.... and nothing NADA nowt....so frustrating

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06-12-2008, 08:44
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Are you using the advanced search?
In b4 a million complaints about the search.


I put 'hotel' in and narrowed it down to 'Deals', and it gave this:





As you see, they are in date order.


Are you certain it had 'hotel' in the title?
You need to narrow it down for the search to give you good results.
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never use the normal search as it is abysmal (explains a lot of the dupes we get). Always use advanced search. A lot better but still not perfect.
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In advanced search, there is a drop down box that you can use to give the ordering results you want.
There is one there for "Thread start date".
It took me ages to find it.

I'm surprised The Saint hasn't mentioned it, 'cos if you just search for "hotels" and don't narrow it down, the order is all over the place.



Have a look here.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/27425...d.php?t=274259
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Jumpingphil:
In advanced search, there is a drop down box that you can use to give the ordering results you want.
There is one there for "Thread start date".
It took me ages to find it.

I'm surprised The Saint hasn't mentioned it, 'cos if you just search for "hotels" and don't narrow it down, the order is all over the place.



Have a look here.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/27425...d.php?t=274259
Have you found the thread in question?
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thesaint:
Have you found the thread in question?
What thread?

Also, if this were is misc, then more people would be aware of it.
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Thanks guys for the help, but I still have not found the deal I was looking for, Im starting to question my own sanity as to wether it ever existed.

As I said the picture was of a swiming pool and a marble pillar, it looked pretty swish, a 5* hotel in holborn for £96 a night(i think).

It shouldnt be too hard to find a deal posted thursdayish should it.
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a1:
Thanks guys for the help, but I still have not found the deal I was looking for, Im starting to question my own sanity as to wether it ever existed.

As I said the picture was of a swiming pool and a marble pillar, it looked pretty swish, a 5* hotel in holborn for £96 a night(i think).

It shouldnt be too hard to find a deal posted thursdayish should it.
I guess that it has been removed as possible self promo.
Can you remember a word or two from the title?
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a1:
Thanks guys for the help, but I still have not found the deal I was looking for, Im starting to question my own sanity as to wether it ever existed.

As I said the picture was of a swiming pool and a marble pillar, it looked pretty swish, a 5* hotel in holborn for £96 a night(i think).

It shouldnt be too hard to find a deal posted thursdayish should it.
In future a1 (and to save your sanity) you might like to use the Thread Tools and subscribe to the Thread you are interested in.

That way it will remain in your subscriptions in the control panel and you will be able to find it, unless of course it HAS been deleted.

Hope that helps.
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a1 - the search will only work as good as the words the person chose to put in the post. E.g. Searching for December will only be useful if the person wrote "Decemeber" rather than "Dec".

I've tried searching, but cannot see what you are looking for. Have you any idea which merchant it was?
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Was it possibly this deal which was expired ?

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/27475...don-hotel-inc/

If you go to < Deals > Tab then select < Travel > from the topic bar, you may see the one you are looking for that way as well
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