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chest rockwell · Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: Sanbon

I type in 'New Zealand Embassy' and hit search and all it comes up with is a blank screen.

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Milwaukiedave · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Location: Goseong

CR,

Yeah, your right. Sometimes you have to try 3 or 4 times before actually getting results. It's too bad it wasn't a little better. Then we'd have less duplicate threads and new people asking the same questions over and over again. It's a waste of time.

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

It's especially difficult searching for things like CIE, CDI, NFL, etc., all of which return thousands of results.

okokok · Joined: 27 Aug 2006

Seems if you search for one or two words, you're usually ok, but if you try a three word search you get the blank screen. Must be too much to process or something.

Lizara · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Location: Seoul

Make sure you tell it to "search for all terms" (why isn't that the default??) and if you can narrow down your search by forum, that helps a LOT.

I just got a blank screen when I tried your search, too. Weird.

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

You sometimes have to search for related words. For example, if you search for NFL, obviously you get 3,000 matches. You have to use "football" instead. It's sometimes easier to search for a location. For example, ECC or CDI would turn up thousands, but typing in Bundang, or Daechi (and selecting only one forum at a time) makes it a little more managable.

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:12 pm Post subject:

Try entering eslcafe and your topic on a Google search. It will turn up what you are looking for, in my experience.

chest rockwell · Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: Sanbon

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

I always get a blank page.. it's frustrating.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

Or how about when it does retrieve some results for you, but then you've got this list of 15-pager threads to wade through, page by page, to find the occurrence of your search terms? Hm? How about that? Fun? Yeah, google eslcafe and your search terms. The search function here serves me right only about half of the time.

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

Boodleheimer · Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:05 am Post subject:

The King of Kwangju · Joined: 10 Feb 2003 Location: New York City

A good search engine is actually quite hard to make. They are expensive to buy, as well, and can be time consuming to modify.

So the one on this forum is free, unmodified. It's not very good at all.

The only thing I can suggest is that the search box on Dave's homepage at http://www.eslcafe.com/ might be better. It's the Google engine, but it only searches this site.

Google has difficulty with phpBB, however, so you might not get everything.