Problem with APOD search function

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Polaris93
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Problem with APOD search function

Post by Polaris93 » Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:59 am

I like to browse through Astronomy Picture of the Day's archives using the search function. This evening I tried bringing up something on the Eight-Burst Nebula, which is in there somewhere. It said "nothing found." I then tried "nebula" and "eight". Same result. To test it, I tried searching in succession for "nebula,' "star," and a couple of other things, and got the same result, which is to say, "nothing found." I'm not sure who to notify about this problem. What can I do about it?
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Just use Google

Post by inertnet » Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:22 pm

Just try this search string in Google:

Eight-Burst Nebula site:antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov

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Re: Just use Google

Post by Andy Wade » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:57 pm

inertnet wrote:Just try this search string in Google:

Eight-Burst Nebula site:antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov
Yes, Google works.
But the APOD search function still doesn't work... and the link to the SWISH-E online documentation page doesn't work either:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu:4444/
Needs looking into, IMO.
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Andy.

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Post by BMAONE23 » Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:01 pm

I think the search function is experiencing a problem as it won't even find todays APOD when entering the title.

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Post by NoelC » Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:04 pm

Seems to be working fine today.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apo ... rst+nebula

-Noel

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