Search gave wrong results

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I just searched for "helios" and got 5 results. 2 of them pointed to the same topic and two of them didn't have a single instance of the word "helios" ( http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/157/#634 and http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/414 )

can you check this ...

gurudutt

Hi chetankjain,

thank you for reporting this issue.

We are looking into it and hopefully we will fix it soon.

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Thanks for taking it up :)

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few more things that I noticed were,

if you open this "thread":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/500
helios appears in the link to the previous thread (such results should not be searched)
Same threads are displayed as multiple results, that should be avoided

mgran

We have a few ideas on how to avoid Google getting a hold on forum topics in places where they are listed for a very short time. This seems to be the root cause of the issue.

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i feel this issue wrt search showing wrong results should be taken up early. very difficult to search for some old post ...

mgran

If you log out you will no longer get a list of new threads in the personal column to the right, so this will stop the false positives. Google was indexing the headlines of new posts on all pages in this way. This went live last Wednesday but Google will take it's time to re-index.