LAVA search DIED

[Ton Plomp]

I don't know what happened but I cannot find anything anymore.

Even a simple search on 'ton' (which should trigger approximatly 1000 posts), or 'git', 'rss' return anything.

EDIT: it seems the minimum search length is 4, could that be fixed

Ton

Edited March 18, 2010 by Ton Plomp

[jgcode]

I don't know what happened but I cannot find anything anymore.

Even a simple search on 'ton' (which should trigger approximatly 1000 posts), or 'git', 'rss' return anything.

EDIT: it seems the minimum search length is 4, could that be fixed

Ton

I prefer to use Google, for NI's site as well.

[Grampa_of_Oliva_n_Eden]

I don't know what happened but I cannot find anything anymore.

Even a simple search on 'ton' (which should trigger approximatly 1000 posts), or 'git', 'rss' return anything.

EDIT: it seems the minimum search length is 4, could that be fixed

Ton

If you serach on the terms "LAVA Search trick" on the dark-side you will find a thread where Michael shared the following;

"You can do a focused Google search by adding site:lavag.org after your search terms."

This works very well for me.

Ben

[crelf]

If you serach on the terms "LAVA Search trick" on the dark-side you will find a thread where Michael shared the following;

"You can do a focused Google search by adding site:lavag.org after your search terms."

I know that embedded google search into your site costs $, but I wonder if we can do something that passes through the search term directly to such a google search?

[Phillip Brooks]

I know that embedded google search into your site costs $, but I wonder if we can do something that passes through the search term directly to such a google search?

I moved this post, then read this post. I wonder:

Where is the LAVA site hosted? Maybe LAVA could offer LabVIEW hosting as a way to generate revenue to pay for things like embedded google search.

Just a thought...

[vugie]

I know that embedded google search into your site costs $, but I wonder if we can do something that passes through the search term directly to such a google search?

IP.Board costs $. So why they provide such a #@$%^%$#@$$?

It's hardly belivable that users don't press them to fix such an issue for such an important functionality...

It's so hardly belivable that I would suppose that search function is simply not well configured on LAVA...

[hooovahh]

I wonder if we can do something that passes through the search term directly to such a google search?

I've seen this done on other forums. Where when you type in a search it just redirects to a site: search on google with those terms.

[crelf]

Where is the LAVA site hosted? Maybe LAVA could offer LabVIEW hosting as a way to generate revenue to pay for things like embedded google search.

LAVA is hosted by a professional IPB.Board company, so I don't think we'd be able to sub-host anything.

[jzoller]

The Google custom search service:

http://www.google.com/cse/

Joe Z.

[Ton Plomp]

I'm not really interested in a google search. It would be helpfull if the response page said 'We could not find anything, but your search term is too short (3 characters) so pleas expand'

Ton

[Michael Aivaliotis]

The old LAVA site used the Google Custom search embedded in the site. There are good things and bad things about it. It's unfortunate that the built in search sucks.

[Ton Plomp]

Currently the search displays a message if the search term is too short.

Ton

[Ton Plomp]

Currently the search displays a message if the search term is too short.

Ton

The latest upgrade has removed the 'too short' message.

Ton

[Michael Aivaliotis]

The latest upgrade has removed the 'too short' message.

Ton

I added it back.

[Ton Plomp]

I added it back.

Thanks, and I see you are working/investigating the actual issue.

Ton