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Sitting Lightcloud
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Join date: 13 May 2004
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07-29-2005 09:04
I wonder how the search was changed in the 1.6 upgrade. First we weren't able to be found anywhere for more than a month using one of our keywords. Now we show up on the second page. What qualifies you to show up on the first page since nearly no one notice the 'Next' Button at the bottom of the screen.
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Lee Linden
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Join date: 31 Dec 1969
Posts: 743
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07-29-2005 11:43
From /111/71/43209/1.html :
Any search entry that includes over 100 results will return 100 results. The 100 you see are selected by a metric that's effectively random. The same 100 will come up for you and everyone else, but they're more or less chosen at random. We know people often want to see the top-traffic results. We've tested doing that, and the result caused a bad performance hit in the database. We can look into it in the future, but the way things are right now, we can't return results by traffic. In case you haven't seen, there are (Next->  and (<-Previous) buttons in the Find dialog that can be used to pull up the other results. Of course, you can always enter more specific search terms (or any search term at all, if you're leaving it blank...)Prior to 1.6, entering NO search term returned every result (often thousands of results) at once. As a result, you could sort the thousands of results by traffic. Unfortunately, that's a really big query to be returning every time someone asks. So, it was changed to return subsets of 100 results at one time. Note that this change only affected BLANK searches. |
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Sitting Lightcloud
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07-30-2005 10:35
Thank you for replying, I hope you'll find a better way soon because right now we seems to be stuck on page 2 while others constantly show up on page 1 which of course hurt our business and again some businesses don't show up at all.
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