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The search feature on the website.

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Forum Name: Help us improve the site
Forum Description: Help us improve the forums, and the site as a whole
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Topic: The search feature on the website.

Posted By: Trickster F.
Subject: The search feature on the website.
Date Posted: November 14 2006 at 13:21

I used to be really keen on the old site. For example, if I was searching for information on Ulver's Perdition City, I would just type in something like 'natt' or another short combination of letters which is particular of that band only, and would be taken straight to that exact band's page.

Now, with the new Google search, that facility is lost, and you are no longer delivered to the band page you would like to. Moreover, searching takes more time and whenever I do find what I have been searching for, the page takes abnormally long to load and I end up typing the criteria of search into my Google bar, much to my displeasure.

Surely, there is some use of the Google search, but can we use both? How about a "go" button along with the "search" one, similar to that of Wikipedia, where "go" sends you to the desired page, whilst "search" launches a (in our case, Google) search?

Would be a really appreciated addition to the website.

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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: November 14 2006 at 13:25

I've complained about this. Now it doesn't bother me anymore.

So try to type more than "natt".

But, since it's a newly made interest, I have to ask: do freshly included bands get their search results? cause I've used once the search for a band that got recently added and there was no response.

if they don't, it really should be "real-time" search.

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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 14 2006 at 13:39

^ the new search facility uses Google. And since it takes a few weeks until Google adds new pages to the index, there's nothing that can be done to speed it up.

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Posted By: Joolz
Date Posted: November 14 2006 at 14:10

Ricochet wrote:

do freshly included bands get their search results? cause I've used once the search for a band that got recently added and there was no response.

if they don't, it really should be "real-time" search.

It's not a problem because new bands appear on the 'NEW ARTISTS/BANDS' list on the About Prog Archives pages - by the time they drop off the list they will have come up on Google

Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 14 2006 at 14:21

Trickster F. wrote:

I used to be really keen on the old site. For example, if I was searching for information on Ulver's Perdition City, I would just type in something like 'natt' or another short combination of letters which is particular of that band only, and would be taken straight to that exact band's page.

Would be a really appreciated addition to the website.

I don't see a problem with it, just type in "Ulver" instead and you get a link to their biog page. It seems pretty quick as well. Alternatively you can use the band index from the home page.

Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: November 14 2006 at 15:47

MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ the new search facility uses Google. And since it takes a few weeks until Google adds new pages to the index, there's nothing that can be done to speed it up.

okay.

deficit. Ouch

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