What's up with the Devx search engine???

[Larry Serflaten]

I have to wonder if you guys think things like this go
unnoticed. I have yet to get satisfying results from
the devx search engine.

I have mentioned problems with it before, so I won't rant, but
it has yet to serve my needs without some amount of hassle.

My latest problem; I am looking for an article by Jonathan Goodyear.
I go to the devx site and click on Search. I type the title of the article in
the search box and got no hits. I type Goodyear in the box and
search again. After about 30 seconds wait, 0 results are returned.

How long has Goodyear been writting for Fawcette? And you have no
articles from him online??? That's hard to believe!

So, I thought, maybe its a Devx/Fawcette thing so I go to the VS.Net
site and hit the search button there. Not surprizing I am taken to the
same search page, and get the same results.

Also, exactly what is the difference between the normal search page,
and the 'advanced' search page? I can see very little difference at all.
If there is a significant difference, you might want to indicate what the
significance is, on that advanced page. If there is no difference, why
even suggest there is?

LFS

[Phil Weber]

> My latest problem; I am looking for an article by Jonathan
> Goodyear. I go to the DevX site and click on Search.

Larry: That was your first mistake. ;-) Ignore the "Search" link at the top
of the page: it's (obviously) broken. Instead, try typing your search term
into the Google-branded search form just below the ad banner. A search on
"Goodyear" returns 38 hits.

If you're searching for content in FTP journals, you can also use the search
engine at http://www.fawcette.com .
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Phil Weber

[Larry Serflaten]

"Phil Weber" <pweber@nospam.fawcette.com> wrote in message news:3c5c8322$1@10.1.10.29...
> > My latest problem; I am looking for an article by Jonathan
> > Goodyear. I go to the DevX site and click on Search.
>
> Larry: That was your first mistake. ;-)

First? Where you been? I'm on at least 8 or 9 by now....

<g>
LFS

[Joe Monroe]

"Phil Weber" <pweber@nospam.fawcette.com> wrote in message
news:3c5c8322$1@10.1.10.29...
>
> Larry: That was your first mistake. ;-) Ignore the "Search" link at the
top
> of the page: it's (obviously) broken. Instead, try typing your search term
> into the Google-branded search form just below the ad banner. A search on
> "Goodyear" returns 38 hits.

If the seach page is (obviously) broken, then maybe they should remove the
link to it.