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Google and DuckDuckGo Search Failures
Members,
With the reorganization of the forum, when a search is performed with Google, DuckDuckGo (or similar search engine) a user may not get to the thread when they click on the link.
For example, I performed the search below just now and the thread I wanted was shown in the results.
However, because of the reorganization, the link provided by the search engine resulted in the forum responding as shown below.
Note that the URL in the initial result provided by the search engine gives all the clues needed to find the thread. The search engine provided the actual title and the channel where the thread will be in (in the case of the EGS thread) the Exterior channel. Why? Because all of the Reference Material channel information was merged with it's parent channel--in this case the Exterior channel.
With a bit of time the search engines will catch up and this will resolve itself. In the meantime, please help members that may come asking about results like this by having them search for the thread using the Advanced Search page.
The Moderator Team thanks you for the assist!
Howard
With the reorganization of the forum, when a search is performed with Google, DuckDuckGo (or similar search engine) a user may not get to the thread when they click on the link.
For example, I performed the search below just now and the thread I wanted was shown in the results.
However, because of the reorganization, the link provided by the search engine resulted in the forum responding as shown below.
Note that the URL in the initial result provided by the search engine gives all the clues needed to find the thread. The search engine provided the actual title and the channel where the thread will be in (in the case of the EGS thread) the Exterior channel. Why? Because all of the Reference Material channel information was merged with it's parent channel--in this case the Exterior channel.
With a bit of time the search engines will catch up and this will resolve itself. In the meantime, please help members that may come asking about results like this by having them search for the thread using the Advanced Search page.
The Moderator Team thanks you for the assist!
Howard