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I've got the paid version of the Search engine. It looked like the search engine was only looking back a few days, so I put in some generic terms that would clearly have show up more than a few days back. Search is set to 9 yrs, but the results only went back no more than 10 days on any search.

Am I missing something or is there a problem with the search engine?

Penalty22 wrote:I've got the paid version of the Search engine. It looked like the search engine was only looking back a few days, so I put in some generic terms that would clearly have show up more than a few days back. Search is set to 9 yrs, but the results only went back no more than 10 days on any search.

Am I missing something or is there a problem with the search engine?

I did a search term, and it went back to 2010.
Make sure it's set to Internet and no group is selected. You can search per group, but to initially test, try with it empty.

ADDED: after looking more, it might be, for some unknown reason, limited to number of results.
I did just teacher, and it only goes back to 2023 with 1891 results.
Similar with just using dog, only results going back to 2024, and using cat only results going back to 2024.

Very concerning as tried teacher in watch lists and get same results, watch list/search should bring over 3500 days, and news servers are now over 5900 days retention.
@dexter, @Quade ??

But, to answer your question, I do manage more than 10 days.
If you still have issues, try to contact their support >https://www.newsbin.com/contact.php

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Penalty22 wrote:I've got the paid version of the Search engine. It looked like the search engine was only looking back a few days, so I put in some generic terms that would clearly have show up more than a few days back. Search is set to 9 yrs, but the results only went back no more than 10 days on any search.

Am I missing something or is there a problem with the search engine?

Search results are limited to 2000 at a time. You can grab the next 2000 or so by clicking the icon to the right of the search bar that says "load older files into the list". Or you can apply some filters to narrow the search results down which will return older posts.

That's how I had mine set. Also used 9 yrs.

I did notice one thing. In the last column to the right in the header, yours shows 1411/1411. Mine shows 3/1320 and has only three results showing. This tells me there were 1320 results, but only 3 are showing. Tried it with a couple other generic searches and got the same type result (i.e., 12/2600, 4/1811)

How do I get the others to show up?

The numbers tell me you have some filter filtering out the visible results. Maybe a size or poster filter. You can disable the visible filters by unclick the button to the left of the "Min Size" that should disable all the filtering. Then you can try to determine what filter is hiding results. Often it's a size filter. Sometimes it's a poster filter which is too broad.

dexter wrote:

Penalty22 wrote:I've got the paid version of the Search engine. It looked like the search engine was only looking back a few days, so I put in some generic terms that would clearly have show up more than a few days back. Search is set to 9 yrs, but the results only went back no more than 10 days on any search.

Am I missing something or is there a problem with the search engine?

Search results are limited to 2000 at a time. You can grab the next 2000 or so by clicking the icon to the right of the search bar that says "load older files into the list". Or you can apply some filters to narrow the search results down which will return older posts.

Thanks dex for all the help and I now got more Newsbin info in my head.
Working on fixing my watch lists and using the suggestion made for that.

Clicking next to "Min" size and showing "None" had no effect. Still getting results like 3/514 with the 3 files names showing.

There has to be a filter somewhere else that's controlling this.

Penalty22 wrote:Clicking next to "Min" size and showing "None" had no effect. Still getting results like 3/514 with the 3 files names showing.

There has to be a filter somewhere else that's controlling this.

All I can say is something is still filtering. Look again at my screenshot(a few posts back) and set your settings like mine. It should show all as in my screenshot(a few posts back).

I don't know of many other filters other than a poster filter.
Maybe show a screenshot of yours, you can skip the search term if you need like I did in my screenshot.
Quade knows more.

My screen looked just like yours. I can't seem to paste the image in this reply
so

Subject Field Internet All groups None None 9 years None None 24/1983.

I've also tried it with None in place of 9 years. The numbers stay the same.

I've searched for other filters, but nothing seems to apply to searches.

Go under Options -> Settings and select "Poster Settings" and see if you have some poster lockouts configured that are getting applied.

Only one there is "Dirty Rotten Spammers" which I don't remember putting there.

I've also played with the download age with no effect. I see files in the group lists that are not picked up by a search because they're more than a few days old.

I'm betting it's something really simple that should smack me in the face.

Penalty22 wrote:Only one there is "Dirty Rotten Spammers" which I don't remember putting there.

I've also played with the download age with no effect. I see files in the group lists that are not picked up by a search because they're more than a few days old.

I'm betting it's something really simple that should smack me in the face.

Sorry, then wait for Quade as it looks like even dexter talks about the only other thing possible to filter and that was poster and even at that the list would have to be pretty large to block so many posts. I can only show what worked for me and if your settings are the same it's something weird.
"Dirty Rotten Spammers" is common for Newsbin.
And, anything else listed there, could block some, but I still don't see it blocking so many.

OH, WAIT one more thing, go to Options, settings, Spam filter settings and set like this. If not, I am out of ideas, I looked at most other settings and nothing seems like it would affect this.

Done that too

Thanks for trying