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by j sheesley

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I personally think TPG is a pretty good product. You must too or you wouldn't have subscribed or become a contributor to begin with. At the same time, I know we're not doing everything right. What really bugs you about TPG and what would you get rid of?

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by blackcurrant

I would like to see a single page that has all the main news stories on it. At the moment they seem to be scattered all over the place. It would be nice if there was a single news index available from the front page of both TR and TPG.

by wowjr1

I have had a lot of trouble getting the Search function to find, some time later, content I know exists. I have no trouble using Google Advanced Search to locate useful information on the Web or (especially) in newsgroups, but I have a lot of trouble doing the same with TPG Search.

by j sheesley

You have a definite point about the 'search' engine. I've sometimes have better luck finding stuff on TPG using Google than I do our own internal 'search' engine.

TPG's 'search' is powered by TechRepublic. Everyone is aware of the search problems, but so far other things have been a priority. I think there's supposed to be a new one coming soon tho.

by blackcurrant

Today I was searching TR and was initially given 80 results (for all topics). I clicked a link to take me to the full list of articles and there were more than 80. After perusing an article I used the back button and was presented with 0 results, then using the forward, then back buttons produced a different number of results...

I look forward to using the new and improved TR search engine.

by Greg Shultz

I really hate searching through a thread and encountering a totally inappropriate, off topic, or obviously misplaced post. They are time wasters and reduce the value of the discussion as a source of good information.

It would be nice it there was TR Discussion moderator who could whack these posts.

by j sheesley

Im going to try to do that in the TPG Discussion Center, but the traffic there is a lot less than in the TR Discussion Center.

by andeanderson

Now I remember what I hate about TPG.

After commenting on the Troubleshooting Section yesterday I told myself to give it another try this morning because I have a problem with our MS Exchange Server and the Work Stations Outlook Contact Folders.

There is no obvious way to Search the Troubleshooting section for anything. It appears to be just a collection of miscellaneous information tidbits listed by Date and only displaying them in a list of 25 items at a time.

The only Search I can find is the Search Box at the top of the page which will only search all of Tech Republic.

Where is the "Search Within This Topic" ability for Troubleshooting?

by j sheesley

You can't find it because it doesn't exist. Our 'search' engine does a shotgun approach across the entire site, not within a specific TPG Track.

The track listing you're seeing is date-sorted within that subject. There used to be a search by topic I believe, but I think we lost that during one of the recent site revisions. That's something good to check on I think.

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