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by shanghai sam

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I was wondering if anyone else is having the following problem or if someone can help me resolve it.

I had asked Tech Republic the following question:

"I cannot do a search in Tech Q&A on questions still open. I ALWAYS get closed questions - ONLY. I have tried everything.
I am almost sure that this has nothing to do with Internet Explorer."

They responded with:

"Click on "View all open questions" on the Technical Q&A page to see the open questions. We've tested this just now and it is working for us. "

However - it doesn't work. Whether I do a search for a title or the author - if the question is still opened, it doesn't show up in the search results.
And in the ADVANCE search I cannot get anything to work for open AND closed questions. Either it finds nothing, or says it found 25 results but doesn't list up any of the results - at least this patially worked before 2002, even though that wasn't too satifying either.
The only search that seems to work for me is when I do a search in the main search box and for closed questions only. And even then, if I am looking for something specific where more than one criteria is needed, combining crtieria using "AND" doesn't work either.

I am using IE 6 and NT Sp6.

Idid have some other problems here which were resolved once I upgraded to IE 6 - but the above wasn't one of them.

It appears to not be just a matter of the new (optical) changes Tech Republic made.

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

Well, I'm not sure whether I can help you overcome your problem, but I can mention another I've always had with TechRepublic's searches.

I've done searches for words in answers that I absolutely know are present but they simply aren't returned.

TechRepublic's search facility isn't up to scratch and I hope they do something about it.

Cheers,
Tim.

by saihib

Maybe this will turn into a gripefest. Here's mine: I have one open question that I've been trying to close for weeks. When I try to close it I get "System error, try again later" My e-mail to TechRepublic has gone unanswered. I know this isn't a problem on my end. As much as I've complained about questions never being closed it now looks like I'm one of the villains when that's not the case.

by jereg

We've all had problems since the "upgrade". I don't know if this addresses your problem, but I've had some flaky performance when I try to block cookies to this site. I'm not sure how the cookies are handled, but it could be affecting our indivdual actions. I ended up as user deleted in the comments of my own question! And I found one question where I was user deleted, but just one. What's up with that?

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