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Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 18 Feb 2018 09:33

Please tell me how to limit the number of results, if I use the search bar to find old threads.

I try to use the most obscure word that it will contain, but I still get many (sometimes about 10 ) identical copies of the same threads.

Why?
Is it me.... or just a quirk of the site.?

Dermot

Dermot Report 18 Feb 2018 10:48

That type of search has never been good on GR.

I've had the same annoying/useless results.

Rambling

Rambling Report 18 Feb 2018 10:50

It's the site Gwyn., it just gives out repeats of the same thread.

Since the 'advanced search' stopped working several years ago it is very difficult to find relevant ( recent!) threads using one word. If it's not one I posted on myself I mostly use google search putting in 'genesreunited' and then the names/words or phrases I am looking for. It's really the only way to find out if someone has posted a previous query on FA board etc.

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Sue In Yorkshire.

Sue In Yorkshire. Report 18 Feb 2018 11:14

If you added to the thread you could look at the threads you added to.


Or use the advance search.

Rambling

Rambling Report 18 Feb 2018 11:17

Advanced search doesn't work Sue, it hasn't for about 3 years, and GR won't fix it.

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Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 18 Feb 2018 14:56

Thanks for trying to help.

The advanced search would be so much easier......if it worked.

I've been on this site too long. ...Lol
I've got 617 pages of threads I've added to, so that's not an easy option.

There seems to be no logic either regarding the order in which search results are displayed, so one can't jump a few pages to get to the correct year.