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I just looked for "lomov" with the ILM search. What I got as a "result" does not make sense. The word "lomov" has 5 letters and I do not think it is a very common word, or did I miss something? What is happening here?

Find threads from I Love Music, containing lomov.
None found

Words shorter than 4 letters and very common words are ignored in keyword (Simple, Query and Subject) searches.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

the entire search function appears to be buggered right now. there was a friendly and informative exchange between mr noodles and i on the mod req board about a month ago :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

or has lomov never been mentioned on ilm? i didn't think about that one but maybe that's why. okay then i have mentioned him now, he is from hamburg and does some interesting electronic music (i am difficult concerning that kind of stuff, you should know). here is his latest album for your download pleasure.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

you can probably still use google to search threads...

go to google, type "site:ilx.wh3rd.net" and then "lomov" and you might get what yr looking for

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

fuck me, ken, that works perfectly. thank you!

(nb: i've not tried looking for lomov; just for the washing machine thread on ILE i was trying to find earlier.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

google and that other search engine did not yield any results a minute ago.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

That Google trick worked on my thread that wouldn't come up in ILM search before. I asked about this on the mod board and was told that it wasn't finding anything before September 2nd at the moment.

― sleeve (sleeve), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

For recent threads, if google ain't working, you can just go to the main I Love Music page and click on October or September and look through all the threads for that month.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

what is it with people called ken and their helpful search tips? :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

this is the best search tip you will find here:

USE THE THREAD TITLE SEARCH

― richard wood johnson, Monday, 10 October 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

x-post... maybe k/l is also a professional researcher/journalist?

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

ken c started the tradition during the seventeen days downtime when the New Answers page was busted.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Oh please don't speak about this, it was my last nervous breakdown.

― snowballing (snowballing), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Seriously?

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

To tell you the truth, yes a bit. Alone in Paris in July, no friends around, no holiday and no ILM...

― snowballing (snowballing), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

The reason why even Thread Title search doesn't work sometimes is because threads from a certain point on aren't being archived anymore.. probably due to space limitations.

In that case, your best best is to go to I Love Music:New Questions, and do a "Find" on the word.

If it's not there, go down below and lick on the most recent months, one at a time, until you find it.

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

I should add that, often, these threads WILL be archived eventually -- usually in the very near future.

It's just that ILM gets into a temporary state where the mods need to reconfigure, backup, etc. so for a small time, most recent threads won't be searchable, whereas older threads will, etc.

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Unless there is a server crash, of course, in which case...

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

...we blame hstencil.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

There was a server crash like that in early December... I remember because the famous "AND NO ANNE MURRAY!" comment on some 1983 cdr go I did wasn't preserved. Sl0cki and I had to reignite it.

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

That's what I was referrring to earlier. I don't know how snowballing survived that one unscathed.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

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