Searches is not parsing properly on ebay and google. \ VOGONS

Searches is not parsing properly on ebay and google.

Topic actions

Post a reply

First post, by pentiumspeed

Posted on 2020-09-06, 01:38

pentiumspeed Offline

Rank l33t

Rank: l33t
Posts: 3113
Joined: 2017-05-17, 23:17
Location: Great Northern: Canada.

For example:

Compaq Prolinea 3/25s did not turn up, I get lots of the 4/25s and others. I had to carefully drill down and find that. Even ebay did have two of these model if I carefully craft and change country but it did not turn up parts for these especially 386sx based made by ibm and compaq especially late models that used 25mhz.

Even ebay may hide some models that I'm interested in like compaq 3/25sz.

That makes me worry that not all are searched properly.

I did also get poor results with intel server board based on two cards using processors and two memory cards. I have not yet found the pdf of this manual. Nec, Fujitsu, NCR and Dell used this board.

Is there a way to have better results next time I need to search for my research?

Cheers,

Great Northern aka Canada.

Reply 1 of 4, by Horun

Posted on 2020-09-06, 02:02

Horun Offline

Rank l33t++

Rank: l33t++
Posts: 6024
Joined: 2019-09-19, 02:19
Location: USA

Hmm I just copied+pasted Compaq Prolinea 3/25s into Google and got some links, some included ProLinea 3/25zs, some include 4/25S. So you are looking for exact matches ?
There are ways to do exact searches thru Google like using double quotes (https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/3544867?hl=en)
Am probably way off but due to changes in how new browsers +html works if the exact name is not in the metadata then certain webpages that have lots info may not show up when searching.
Has been an issue for at least a few years and gets worse as time goes on when looking for old info. Anyone with a better explaination please correct me.

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 2 of 4, by pentiumspeed

Posted on 2020-09-06, 02:18

pentiumspeed Offline

Rank l33t

Rank: l33t
Posts: 3113
Joined: 2017-05-17, 23:17
Location: Great Northern: Canada.

This was, but something got worse with time. The changes to the search algorithm had changed.

Cheers,

Great Northern aka Canada.

Reply 3 of 4, by Horun

Posted on 2020-09-06, 15:18

Horun Offline

Rank l33t++

Rank: l33t++
Posts: 6024
Joined: 2019-09-19, 02:19
Location: USA

Yes google is getting bad....Did you find this: http://ps-2.kev009.com/ohlandl/PS2_MOST/ACROR … PAQ/2005020.PDF

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 4 of 4, by yawetaG

Posted on 2020-09-06, 15:56

yawetaG Offline

Rank Oldbie

Rank: Oldbie
Posts: 1828
Joined: 2016-06-14, 14:36
Location: Netherlands

Google has been getting progressively worse since the early 2000s...

Ebay seems to have changed something in their search that causes it to revert to the standard search settings even if you specified additional options in advanced search. If you then go back to advanced search and redo the settings, it will work again for a short while.

Go to top of page Go to top of page

Back to General Old Hardware

Main menu

Common searches