it comes up with three results. I have written more posts than that during that period, and I almost always sign my posts, so there must be something I am doing wrong. What is it?
Also, is there any way to sort the result set (or whatever the correct term is)?
It looks like he wants it hosted here. It’s a frameset, with a fairly generous portion (not quite a third) devoted to getting all your search parameters, including forum. A bit more than two-thirds is Google itself — the result set, upon submitting the criteria. No sorting specified. Perhaps Google takes care of that, I don’t know. There is a “query” field though, which might allow you to specify things like that. Not sure. The whole thing is submitted to Google via a form “get” (apparently), just using an ordinary query string.
Well, it’s hard to say in your case. My understanding is the break in spidering is because the SDMB went to a new format for thread and post URLs and Google can’t seem to find the older posts. But you’re searching recent posts-- ones that I believe should have been covered by Google’s spider without much trouble.
Another problem with Google is they’ve got so many nodes that search results will be inconsistent. What you come up with in a search is not necessarily going to be what someone else comes up with. At least with the stock search there is some consistency in results.
Something is definitely fishy with the date range search. The “entire” year of 2008-09 returns about 240 results.
I uploaded the OP’s code to one of our servers. There’s a missing opening bracket somewhere, and I just don’t have time to dog it down. Maybe the OP could have a look, post the new code, and I’ll give it another try.
You’re doing it right. For some reason Google didn’t get all the board contents. If we can convince TPTB to submit a Google Sitemap of the board contents then you would get all the results.
Google does all the sorting. The best you can do to bias the results is add more keywords.
I don’t think Google has many posts from that time period, for whatever strange reason.
I just copied/pasted pmy posted code onto a new computer and it worked!
This new version:
[ul]
[li]Shows lengthy text snippets[/li][li]Defaults to new posts in the last day[/li][li]Allows you to search a date range in M/D/YYYY format[/li][li]Allows you to sort by either relevance or date[/li][/ul]
I’ve had weird results with Google date range search before in other contexts. In fact I’ve always found it totally unreliable, the results it returns often veer all over the time range and don’t reflect the parameters at all.
[ul]
[li]Returns 100 results per page[/li][li]Guarantees the result occurs in the forum you specify (unfortunately demonstrating how spotty google’s index is so far, but that’s no fault of googles IMO - please submit a sitemap!)[/li][/ul] index.html
unchanged
search.html
<html>
<script>
var forum, title, query;
var url = "http://www.google.com/search?q=site:boards.straightdope.com";
var tbs = "&num=100&filter=0&tbs=frm:1,sts:1";
function UpdateQuery() query = document.getElementsByName("query")[0].value;
function UpdateTitle() title = document.getElementsByName("title")[0].value;
function SearchForum() {
forum = document.getElementById("forum");
forum = forum.options[forum.selectedIndex].value;
}
function SearchRecency() {
recency = document.getElementById("recency");
recency = recency.options[recency.selectedIndex].value;
}
function SearchSort() {
sorting = document.getElementById("sorting");
sorting = sorting.options[sorting.selectedIndex].value;
}
function DopeSearch() {
var username = document.search.username.value;
var from = document.search.from.value;
var to = document.search.to.value;
if (query) url += ' ' + query;
if (title) url += ' intitle:' + title;
if (username) url += ' %2B"Find all posts by ' + username + '"';
if (forum) url += ' %2B"Board > Main > ' + forum + '"';
if (recency) tbs += ',' + recency;
if (from && to) tbs += ',cdr:1,cd_min:' + from + ',cd_max:' + to;
if (sorting) tbs += ',' + sorting;
parent.google.location = url + tbs;
return true;
}
</script>
<center>
<h1>Dope Search</h1>
<form onsubmit="DopeSearch()" name="search">
<select id="forum" onchange="SearchForum()">
<option value="All forums" selected="selected">All forums</option>
<option value="About This Message Board">ATMB</option>
<option value="Comments on Cecil's Columns">CCC</option>
<option value="General Questions">GQ</option>
<option value="Great Debates">GD</option>
<option value="Cafe Society">CS</option>
<option value="The Game Room">TGR</option>
<option value="In My Humble Opinion">IMHO</option>
<option value="Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share">MPSIMS</option>
<option value="The BBQ Pit">The Pit</option>
</select>
User: <input type="text" name="username" size="13%">
<select id="recency" onchange="SearchRecency()">
<option value="All times" selected="selected">All time</option>
<option value="qdr:y">Last year</option>
<option value="qdr:m">Last month</option>
<option value="qdr:w">Last week</option>
<option value="qdr:d">Last day</option>
</select>
From: <input type="text" name="from" size="7%">
To: <input type="text" name="to" size="7%"> (M/D/YYYY) <br/><br/>
Title: <input type="text" size="20%" name="title" onchange="UpdateTitle()">
Query: <input type="text" size="30%" name="query" onchange="UpdateQuery()">
<select id="sorting" onchange="SearchSort()">
<option value="sbd:0" selected="selected">Sort by relevance</option>
<option value="sbd:1">Sort by date</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Search">
</form>
</center>
</html>
I got a warning a while back for suggesting specific technical solutions to some SDMB problems. Tuba cited an unwritten “junior admin” rule. Just sayin’ … I don’t think they’ve ever implemented any specific solutions from users in the past.
They can be in any folder, doesn’t matter which one as long as both files are in the same one. I only test in Firefox and Safari. It looks like IE8 is doing some kind of hyper-anal access control restriction where you can’t embed any third party site in a frame. It might also be choking on my inline function definitions. Maybe adding { } to lines 6/7 would fix that one.
