Mylot searches??

I don't come up with no results that often, but I have definitely tried to search for things before posting them and have not come up with things that are right there. Case in point, one time I posted about a news story and a day later found out that someone on my friend list had posted about it like a day before me, but I had not known and had honestly tried to use the search engine to find out if anyone had posted about that topic before I posted it. So I don't think that the search function is the best in the world, lol! But I do try to use it before I post something. ^_^

i have the same probleme :s

Earlier (say 3 months ago) mylot search was very effective. If I put 2 words of my topic, it would show not only my topic, but also other topics with such key words. The present search results are totally useless.

the searching software is a costley one if it's effective so i think mylot dont like to spend money on a search engine so just put an ordinary search engine to work but not working good...

I haven't been here long but have used the search several times and it worked for me, only pulled a few posts but they fit my search exactly.

Really not sure,,,this is my first day here. I'll explore this site more as I use it. Interesting so far?

I have tried the searches a few times especially when I want to see if something has been copied. It worked a few times but now, I get irrelevant topics coming up my my search. I thought I was doing something wrong.

Me too! I thought I was having trouble because I was a newbie. I don't understand it either. The search does say all, tags or discussions. I would assume that meant it did an indepth search.

that's happened to me too, and then i just wanna delete my topic cuz i don't wanna be a copycat, but that's not possible either, so i guess we'll just have to keep searching harder.

Yes do have sort of same prob

Even i have similar prblem as you have but then it solved as people go and read them and when they do respond it they actuall make that subject come to the first page

I have the same problem sometimes. I see the smiliar discussions but in the actual search engine it says no results. What the?

no mam it doesnt happen with me.

Really not sure,,,this is my first day here. I'll explore this site more as I use it. Interesting so far?

i think myLot need to have a kind of ChaCha.com search engine where us members could help each others searches and earn from it. wouldn't it be great!

I do searches all the time as sometimes i do find the topic I want to talk about but other times I do not find anything. After I create a topic, I see at the bottom something similar to my topic but not the same and the question is always different. We should remember that a certain topic can have many different questions related to it. If we find something on the searches, we should not duplicate that same question. We can ask a different question relating to the topic but not the same one or same idea.

When I first signed up I conscientiously did searches before posting a new discussion .. but as I rarely came up with anything only to find once I'd posted my 'unique' discussion that several more on almost identical topics had already been posted I gave up doing the searches .. Getting the right information from doing a search really depends on using the right words to search with .. and as I wasn't searching every word in both my header and write up I was clearly missing the actual word that would have shown me a discussion had already been started ... I think the search feature is a bit too hit and miss to be really useful .. more use would be a really concise index of the topics available (and better control over people adding in their own interests) .. then we could easily search by the index ..

I am also having the same problem . i thought it was just me but not like that some times it does not logout also.

I also do search for a lot of things on mylot but I always do get the result. I feel you should write to the mylot admin so that they can help you.

i think that is one use of the tags we type before finally posting an article. i have tried this one yet but i guess there is nothing i can do once i already posted it and afterwhich i find out that there exists similar topics. that's why most of the time i post responses, to avoid duplication of topics. ^_^