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magicusb Inner circle 1135 Posts |
Cannot wait till it comes back. One of the most useful parts of the Café for me.
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Review King Eternal Order 14446 Posts |
Steve Brooks sent out an announcement on this :
_____________________________________________ Hi folks, Just a quick heads-up that we have taken the Café Search Engine off-line, at least for the time being. That said, you will temporarily be unable to do searches unless you make use of Google, etc. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.
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the saddest are, "It might have been" ..........John Greenleaf Whittier |
Douglas Lippert Inner circle E Pluribus Unum 2343 Posts |
You can still search this website using Google.
site:themagiccafe.com the magic Café: X Where X=your search term. ---------------- Since the other thread has been locked I'll make my comment here. What if members that pay, let's say $X/year were allowed to run searches through their account and had a new ranking similar to VIP? It would be an incentive to support this website. OR..you could possibly add a Google Search bar to this website instead of the regular search. Wouldn't this reduce server load?
Douglas Lippert
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Gene Café Forum Developer Howard City, MI 276 Posts |
We haven't made any firm decision yet what we're going to do. Once we do we'll let everyone know. From the looks of things it appears it may involve Google, but we don't know to what extent that might be. There are drawbacks to anything we do. For example, Google can't index *all* of the forums, so that has to be taken into account. Further, Google isn't always updated; You can't filter the results based on a specific forum, specific member or specific timeframe; results can't be shown in ascending or descending order; Plus more. Still, it may be the only real solution we have, with perhaps a limited version of the on-site search engine offered to handle the forums Google can't index. It's either that or put some kind of restriction(s) on the search engine we already have. In my view, it's a no-win situation whatever the final decision turns out to be. 3-million-plus posts is a LOT to search through without having the resources a company like Google does.
Steve has been, and always will be, adamant that the Café remain free for all magicians, VIPs and newbies alike. We take donations, of course, but there will never be a forced fee of any kind. Contrary to what some people may think, this site doesn't generate a lot of money. We've already spent the money from the last donation drive, and that wasn't all that long ago. I better quit now, I probably said too much already.
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