Re: Finding Posts
From: John Eikanger [MSFT] (johnei_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/09/04
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Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 20:41:13 GMT
Hi, Norm
As Rob says, it depends on the search engine. Another factor is latency.
Some engines cache and search that rather than doing a live search, so the
most recent posts may not show up. Google is the standard until something
better comes along.
John Eikanger
Microsoft Developer Support
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| From: "Rob Oldfield"
<rob@oldfield100_wow_freeserve_yikes_co_incredible!_uk>
| Subject: Re: Finding Posts
| Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 20:14:14 +0100
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| Depends what newsreader you're using. I'm using OE 6 and have found the
| search lousy as well. I tend to use Google instead.
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| "normd" <normd@online.knorrassociates.com> wrote in message
| news:A0E7B5FF-D95A-44BB-9543-EED269296E33@microsoft.com...
| > Am I doing something dumb? Ween searching for posts in this system I
| enter words from my posts - that I know are in there - and the search
keeps
| coming back with nothing found. I entered the original; I KNOW it is
there!
| >
| > Further, I search, as a test, for posts I'm looking at on the screen and
| using words from their subject line, and it tells me "nothing found!"
| >
| > Is there a way to find posts from an author without starting with a post
| from that author?
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