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bug resolved search syntax comment highlight

started by Sean Brady on 11 Oct 08
Graham Perrin liked it
  • Sean Brady
     
    I seem to be unable to search for my bookmarks by highlights or by comments. I have a bookmark from a week or so back that I looked at the words I had highlighted, did an advanced earch and it returned no results.

    Is this an issue on Diigo? Is this an issue with my account? Help me out.
  • Mike Chelen
     
    Using the Diigo search seems to look in highlights, for example http://www.diigo.com/search?what=%22opening%20square%20bracket%22
  • Sean Brady
     
    That search does not work for me either. I know the information is there. I even use advanced search for just comments. Nothing. I can copy a word from a highlight, paste it into the highlight box in advanced search, and it finds nothing. These highlights have been in the system for more than a week, so they should be indexed.
  • Maggie Tsai
     
    checking ...
  • Sean Brady
     
    Thanks.
  • Joel Liu
     
    We found the problem. Fixing....
  • anonymous
     
    Cool. I was having other issues with my account, so I switched over to a new one, but this issue was still persisting. I am VERY glad you foun the issue and will be able to fix it.

    Thanks,

    Sean
  • anonymous
     
    Any update on the status of this?
    Joel Liu wrote:
    > We found the problem. Fixing....
  • Joel Liu
     
    It is ok to search highlight now. We are still patching search comments feature.
  • anonymous
     
    Thanks. I just tried a couple of highlight searches and they still returned no results. In each case i copied and word from an existing highlight and pasted it into the advanced find highlight box. No results each time. It does seem to find the sites if I just do a normal search everywhere.
  • Joel Liu
     
    Maybe you searched comments or descriptions. For example, http://www.diigo.com/user/Sbrady?tab=9 when you expand this bookmark "Enterprise 2.0 Blog » Blog Archive » Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War", you will find several areas: Title, tag, descriptions, site, comment, highlight.

    Could you try to search highlight only now? We still have some problems in searching comment and will fix it soon.
  • Joel Liu
     
    If you did search highlight and still got the no bookmarks message, please let me know the search keywords and the bookmark title. Thanks!
  • anonymous
     
    I have the Wikipedia article for Network Effect bookmarked. I have the words Network Effect highlighted in the article. But if I search for the highlight on that (h:(network effect)) it finds nothing. This is the case with every thing I have tried. I go to my main bookmarks page, expand out the annotations, find a highlight, copy some text, and try the search,

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effects
  • anonymous
     
    Searching on a word from this bookmark does work. So perhaps some of my highlights are not indexed? I am searching on things that were bookmarked a couple weeks back.

    Joel Liu wrote:

    > Maybe you searched comments or descriptions. For example,
    > http://www.diigo.com/user/Sbrady?tab=9
    > when you expand this bookmark "Enterprise 2.0 Blog » Blog Archive »
    > Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War", you will
    > find several areas: Title, tag, descriptions, site, comment,
    > highlight.
    >
    > Could you try to search highlight only now? We still have some
    > problems in searching comment and will fix it soon.
  • Graham Perrin
     
    Joel Liu wrote:

    > Could you try to search highlight only now?

    In a private group where I have highlighted a page,
    http://groups.diigo.com/search?group_name=centrim&what=h%3A(management+association)
    _does_ work as expected:

    - matches only the one bookmark in which that expression is highlighted

    (Without the h: prefix to the search expression, the results are broader.)

    Thanks.
  • Graham Perrin
     
    Joel Liu wrote:

    > some problems in searching comment and will fix it soon.

    Yes, I might have expected
    http://groups.diigo.com/search?group_name=collaboration&what=c%3A(knowledge+puzzle)
    to find the expression

    knowledge puzzle

    within the April 2008 comment from Joan Vinall-Cox at
    http://www.diigo.com/annotated/8694ea219110af74bae65255bda5f499

    (Am I guessing the search syntax correctly? I couldn't easily find a syntax at http://help.diigo.com/ .)

    I didn't realise advanced search features such as this before now; thanks, Sean!
  • Graham Perrin
     
    I'm more than satisfied with improvements to searches of my library and groups.

    I understand that advanced search (e.g. of comments) is possible in my library but not in groups.

    Sean and all, shall we add a 'resolved' tag to this topic?
  • Graham Perrin
     
    > I might have expected
    > http://groups.diigo.com/search?group_name=collaboration&what=c%3A(knowledge+puzzle)
    > to find …

    Reviewing this topic following the major upgrade from Diigo 3 beta to 4.0 beta: I understand that within groups, search is less advanced than in my library. Not expecting to find text within a group comment using that syntax.

    Sean and all, shall we add a 'resolved' tag to this topic?

    Thanks
    Graham
  • Graham Perrin
     
    Bug

    http://www.diigo.com/search?adSScope=my&what=VirusBarrier%20family

    > Search titles, tags, annotations, URLs and snapshots
    > VirusBarrier family

    fails to find my bookmark of
    http://blog.intego.com/2010/01/15/virusbarrier-x6-the-lowest-priced-mac-antivirus
    with the word VirusBarrier in the title, and
    with the word family amongst the annotations.

    http://diigo.com/0bw2n shows my highlights.

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