the Search feature rarely works for me, whenever i click search and type a word in and click "go" i get a page that says "The page cannot be displayed". Sometimes i get lucky and it works but thats not often. Ive heard of other people having this problem too...any one know how to fix this?? thanks in advance
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Search feature isnt working for me....
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crap, I can search the knife exchange for 'cheesecake', and the productions for sale by individuals will give me results for 'apple'; but there's apparently millions and millions of threads containing 'spyderco military', barring me from getting any results. Continuing with the food theme-'roast beef' at least gives me the sorry no matches message.
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If you use your brain a little, though, you can go to Advanced Search, limit your search to the For Sale: Production Knives (Individual) forum, search titles only, keyword military (without adding spyderco) -- and get 8 hits.
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Cougar Allen said:
Except for 'cheesecake', I was searching only the FS
K(I) forum (that's a pretty cool acronym) By limiting to titles only, but still searching for both spyderco and military, I have to eliminate the chance of finding one in a thread titled 'productions for sale', or 'spydies', 'millie', 'BM, Kershaw, and others', or any other thread title that may have these hidden gems. And the FS forums is a pretty time sensitive area, imo. 5 of those hits have last posts in 04. And the really weird part, if I limit the time frame myself, to as low as posts from yesterday and newer, I still get the error page. I'd think the first couple pages of threads would have to be nothing but Spydie Millies for that to happen-which isn't the case.Actually, since the threads lose value once the knives are gone, or I'd say at least after the OP hasn't bumped it for a few months, maybe there could be a more frequent purge or archiving to help out the search function.
I search all the time, and I think I'm pretty decent at it (sure, google is a lot stronger than altavista from 5 years ago) but I just don't know how I can maximize my useful results while searching for this one knife. I want a plain edge, but I know I can't search for threads with 'PE' in them, too short. Some people may use plain, but I wouldn't guess as often as PE (or not, I just tried it, spyderco military plain-error; "spyderco military" plain-error, tho' I'm not even sure the forum search uses quotes to search strings)
Throw in satin as well-'spyderco military plain satin' and I still get an error.
Hell, don't think I even understand how this search works now. Adding keywords doesn't seem to narrow it down. I threw winnipeg in there for S&G, and still got the error. Deleted all but military and winnipeg (in case I was using too many words)-error. Took it down to yesterday and newer again, error. Finally searched just winnipeg in posts from yesterday and newer, got no matches. I should really get that searching for posts made in the last 24 hours searching for both military and winnipeg, shouldn't I? I even threw in an AND in case I needed boolean to force it to include both terms in the search with no luck in getting a results page. I searched other 2 word strings (mar shiva and kershaw bump) with no problems.
