Is search broken?

[grishlol456]

Hey,

The search function on search.literotica.com and literotica.com/my seems to be completely broken for me. Certain authors and their stories straight up don't show up anymore, and even searching for the stories by name doesn't work.

 

[PWilton]

Hey,

The search function on search.literotica.com and literotica.com/my seems to be completely broken for me. Certain authors and their stories straight up don't show up anymore, and even searching for the stories by name doesn't work.

When I have difficulty finding what I want via Lit search, I will use Google Advanced Search. You can search for items within Literotica by entering 'http://www.literotica.com/' or 'https://forum.literotica.com/index.php' (depending on what part of Lit you want to search) into the Google 'Site or Domain' box, so as to confine the search to Literotica. A bit clumsy, but often returns better info than the Lit search itself. Perhaps that might help?

 

[MagnusRhodes]

You can also do that shorthand by typing "site:literotica.com (some search terms)" in the search box without going to advanced search. Slightly less clumsy and definitely better than most built-in searches on any website.

 

[grishlol456]

Thanks for the tips. The issue is that I make liberal use of the list feature on literotica.com/my, and I sort of need the search function there to easily add stuff to a myriad of different lists.

At any rate, two things I noticed that might elucidate the issue a little further:

It seems that apostrophes don't work anymore. Searching a title with one in it displays nothing, but when you replace the apostrophe with an empty space, the engine does manage to find it.

It also seems that it isn't possibly anymore to search for authors specifically in the literotica.com/my search engine, which consequently means that you can't narrow searches by author anymore. This makes finding stories with less unique titles much harder to find.

 

[PWilton]

You can also do that shorthand by typing "site:literotica.com (some search terms)" in the search box without going to advanced search. Slightly less clumsy and definitely better than most built-in searches on any website.

Good point, thanks.