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How To Search The Know-how Exchange

Posted by Anonymous on 5/5/2007 at 7:59 AM ET 125 Points
Is it just me? I know there's great stuff locked up in the answers to old questions in KHE, but when I try searching using specific keywords I'd like to find in the text, I get a huge number of extraneous results that have nothing to do with my keywords. Is there a secret searching technique that will yield relevant results?
Thanks,
Marge
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  • Posted by Mushfique Manzoor on 5/6/2007 at 11:37 AM Member
    hi margec

    if u go for any search in the search box at top the page, yes probably u will get not the desired one.

    better u first log in, then u click on the search question link on the right side bar. then u select closed from drop down list and with the keyword, hopefully you will find ur desired search results. but searching is always painstaking.

    hope this helps.

    cheers!
  • Posted on 5/6/2007 at 12:53 PM Author
    Thanks, but yes, I'm using the "search questions" function. It doesn't seem to actually use the keyword information in returning results. Maybe the Marketing Profs people could shed some light?
    Marge
  • Posted by Carl Crawford on 5/6/2007 at 11:54 PM Member
    Just use www.google.com but limit the search with "link: www.marketingprofs.com/ea/" (with out the ")at the end of your search query. That is the best way.

    The /ea/ at the end will limit it just to the forum, just remove the /ea/ to search the whole of marketingprofs.
  • Posted on 5/7/2007 at 7:31 AM Author
    Thanks. I'll try that. It's interesting that the forum's own search function doesn't seem to work.
  • Posted by Carl Crawford on 5/7/2007 at 9:58 PM Accepted
    Jeff try starting a new question. Anyway it is because of a number of factors, it is constantly updated, it has hundreds of thousands of link to it all from high ranking sites, it structure is designed from the ground up to enable search engines to see it, wikis like blogs get a higher ranking than websites, and the most important part CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT etc.

    Margec the search does work, it just not very good for a large site like MarkertingProfs (MP). MP could invest in a better search engine but when you can just use google, which will do the job better no matter how much money you spend.

    You might be asking yourself then why doesn't MP just use one of those local google search box's that I see all around the web?

    The answer is because the google search boxes are very restricted. They are limited in the size of your site, MP is way to big. There is also a limit on the number of page views you are allowed per month, I think its about a million or so. I don't know what kind of numbers MP get but it would not surprise me to find that they have more than a million page views a month.
  • Posted by steven.alker on 5/8/2007 at 6:37 AM Accepted
    That’s reassuring – I was starting to think that I was an oddball using Google to search through MarketingProfs from the “outside” rather than using the internal search engine!

    This is a problem more widespread than the MP website. Maximizer (www.maximizer.com) have a support page called the knowledge-base, which is I believe run by Right-Now Technologies (Well, they said that they ran it for Maximizer inc) and the search capabilities on that appear to require that you know what you are looking for before you start to look for it, otherwise you get swamped by vaguely similar results.

    Maybe that’s intended and we Business Partners tend to guide each other through the hidden treasures whereas it would take even an expert user a week to get an answer to a question. That’s what I called protecting our assets!

    The general MP search also seems to direct users to the premium content – I wonder if that is yet more asset protection!

    Best wishes


    Steve Alker
    Unimax Solutions, Maximizer Business Partners
    SalesVision, Forecasting and SPM specialists
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