Thanks all for the feedback so far
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Originally Posted by
Birnando
It seems it will only function on my machine when I select any of the other Quick styles from the drop down at the bottom of the pages.
On the default style it is as before.
Right, at the moment we use the styles to mostly test out various things, and I intentionally didn't change the SRP style so that we can easily switch back to that one. The styles system is still not very good, but it's workable, so it's not too much maintenance to keep them like this. I did set the system default for everybody who hasn't set a style to be the one with the googlesearch, so that most people would be switched automatically and those who have overriden the system default are presumably savvy enough to pick whatever works best for them.
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Originally Posted by
BigJim
I imagine it will yield different results than the former search and those that relied heavily upon the former search (were good at using it) will have some difficulty adjusting, but I'm a fan.
Yeah the old one is still available under Advanced Search, for those who prefer it, but eventually we'll set the one that the majority prefers to be the search that doesn't require an extra click, and the one with the extra click would be for the minority.
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Originally Posted by
petrakos
the only problem i find in the new search engine is first of all that the results come not with the exact order from newer to older
That is the intended difference. The order is set by Google's algorithm, not by the chronology of the posting. The idea is that Google is better at figuring out the most relevant results, than the time ordering is. You can use the advanced search for the old version.
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Originally Posted by
petrakos
and that the older search engine was giving more accurate results closer to the searched subject
That's why we're still considering this an experiment and need to get feedback like yours. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by
petrakos
when i search for a term on google i find results from SRP that are not found in results when i search the same word in the search engine of SRP
We have pretty good indexing at google, so this shouldn't be a big problem, but please let us know exactly what search terms gave you more results when searching the site on google versus the search in the google bar on SRP.
Google should be looking at the exact same data in both ways, so I'm very interested to know differences like this and then we can figure out what the problem is.
Of course, all of the SRP developers are volunteers and have plenty of things to do in their real life other than fixing the forum, so eventually these things depend on their availability.
It's still fun to try new things as an experiment and even if we can't make them work perfectly we can always decide whether the new way is a little better or a little worse than the old way and then stick with the one that works better.