On Friday 21 November 2008 21:39:52 Harriet Bazley wrote: > On 21 Nov 2008 as I do recall, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have registered myself as a user of the Guardian website, and there > > is no doubt that I am properly registered. But I can't search it. If I > > enter a common search term such as "women" into > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle > > > > > > I get a blank such as > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/websearch?web-search-field=women&sitesearch-rad > >io=guardian&go-guardian=Search > > > > What's wrong? Is it another case of no Java? > > I don't know, but the Guardian's search facility hasn't worked for me > for some time - although it once did, doubtless before some site > 'update'! > > So far as I'm aware you don't need to be a registered user to search the > site anyway; I never was. (Unless that's what I'm doing wrong, of > course...!) > > The only way to search their site that works for me is to use Google > Advanced search to restrict the search to only the site guardian.co.uk > -- I can never remember the syntax, but I think you can also just add > "site:guardian.co.uk" to your search string in their standard simple > search box. Just examine the URL generated by the Advanced search to > find out what the precise keyword is....
I've tried the above search in both Firefox 3.04 and Netsurf 1.1 in Kubuntu 8.04, and noticed that the result page's URL is different: Netsurf http://www.guardian.co.uk/websearch?web-search-field=women&sitesearch-radio=guardian&go-guardian=Search Firefox http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?search=women&sitesearch-radio=guardian&go-guardian=Search It does look like there is some Javascript involved in the search, sending the browser to a different page depending on whether Javascript is running or not <form id="search" action="http://www.guardian.co.uk/websearch"; method="get" onsubmit="return SearchForm(true, 'http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?search=','http://www.guardian.co.uk/search/users');">
