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[Simon Wood]

The Search function appears not to be working. Or is it me?

Simon

[mpriestnall]

Hi Simon,

Tried a quick test and seems ok for me.

Search returned matches from these locations:

https://forum.casebook.org/

https://forum.casebook.org/forum/rip...victims

[rjpalmer]

The Search function appears not to be working. Or is it me?

Simon

Hi Simon.

I have noticed in the past year that the Search function doesn't always work. It sometimes responds 'no results' even when one knows there should be results.

I think it only happens when one doesn't log in, however. At least that's what I have concluded, so maybe try logging in if you haven't already.

Meanwhile, I hope the high winds, the floods, the earthquakes, and the weekly mass shootings aren't disturbing your neck of the woods too much.

Cheers.

[mpriestnall]

1. Make a search on something.
2. Website returns results.
3. Click on a result.

Gets "Blocked Paged" An error occurred during a connection to www.google.com.

I'm logged in.
Firefox browser.

[mpriestnall]

Just tried again.
Edge browser. Not logged in.

Same error.

Quote
www.google.com is blockedwww.google.com refused to connect.
ERR_BLOCKED_BY_RESPONSE
Unquote

[Simon Wood]

Me too!

The search function appears to work, but when you click on a result -



Simon

[c.d.]

Working for me. Logged in and using Firefox as browser.

c.d.

[mpriestnall]

Thanks Simon and c.d.

[mpriestnall]

Just tried again using Chrome / not logged in. Same issue.

Tried from outside cb, using google.com. Same search produces same results but work when clicked.

Error seems to happen or not happen depending on which search box one uses:

Error occurs with the search box (bottom left) at casebook.org

Error does NOT occur using the search box (top right) at https://forum.casebook.org

I have pm'd Admin re this for their info.

[Admin]

We are sorry to inform everyone that Google is no longer allowing independent sites to use their search feature "in site". There will not be a quick fix to this. The search bar has therefore been removed on the main site. We are going to try a work around, but it might take some time. You can still "search" Casebook by typing in our address casebook.org and your key word on any search engine platform (boycott Google they suck), but Google won't allow us to generate a list of links in site, it blocks them.

The search feature on the forums should still be operatable, it is a "in house" search feature that was built into the forum software and is not related to Google.

[Wickerman]

Me too!

The search function appears to work, but when you click on a result -



Simon

Same results with the Press Reports search window.
I would have thought that was an in-house search feature?

[rjpalmer]

Same results with the Press Reports search window.
I would have thought that was an in-house search feature?

Nope. It's powered by Google.

Most probably, the company is very unpopular today on any number of different websites with extensive archives.

[Wickerman]

Nope. It's powered by Google.

Most probably, the company is very unpopular today on any number of different websites with extensive archives.

I saw the page said 'enhanced by Google', but I thought 'in-house' meant the search was limited to data contained on this website (like Newspapers), as opposed to across the globe on the WWW.