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Microsoft has changed from a one-page centric focus on performing a
search of their support knowledgebase to spreading it out amongst
product centers. The Search Help says that supposedly there should be
an Advanced Search link but there is not. I've seen it once but
Microsoft is continuing to modify their support site (for awhile I
couldn't even connect to it due to "maintenance"). In the simpleton
(i.e., basic) search dialog, I'll see:
o
o Search help
where the first bullet is blank. Presumably it should have the link to
perform an advanced search. Since the link is screwed up (because it
isn't there), I have no way to perform advanced searches.
The http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;EN-US;KBHOWTO URL
used to take me to their advanced search page. Now I just get their
Basic Search dialog. In that page, there isn't even a Search Help link
but just one bullet (with no text), so their link to Advanced Search is
really screwed up. I can even see this in their HTML code for the tables
they use for the input field and bullet lists:
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="list">
<tr>
<td class="bullet"></td>
<td class="text"></td>
</tr>
</table>
Well, duh, there is NO string in the 2nd column. This should also have
an <A> tag for the URL to their Advanced Search page. If you look at a
page where there is an input field and followed by the empty bullet and
the bullet to Search Help, you see:
<tr>
<td class="bullet"></td>
<td class="text"></td> <--- There is NO text or URL here!
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="bullet"></td>
<td class="text"><a href="/?scid=gp;[ln];searchhelp" id="L_278"
title="Get search help">Search Help</a></td>
So they managed to get the <A> tag with its URL to display okay for the
help page (which isn't much help and really is just a placeholder page).
But the first bullet is obviously missing the <A> tag with the URL to
their advanced search page. So if someone knows what is that URL then I
can go there directly rather than trying to rely on links on the basic
search pages but which are missing.
search of their support knowledgebase to spreading it out amongst
product centers. The Search Help says that supposedly there should be
an Advanced Search link but there is not. I've seen it once but
Microsoft is continuing to modify their support site (for awhile I
couldn't even connect to it due to "maintenance"). In the simpleton
(i.e., basic) search dialog, I'll see:
o
o Search help
where the first bullet is blank. Presumably it should have the link to
perform an advanced search. Since the link is screwed up (because it
isn't there), I have no way to perform advanced searches.
The http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;EN-US;KBHOWTO URL
used to take me to their advanced search page. Now I just get their
Basic Search dialog. In that page, there isn't even a Search Help link
but just one bullet (with no text), so their link to Advanced Search is
really screwed up. I can even see this in their HTML code for the tables
they use for the input field and bullet lists:
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="list">
<tr>
<td class="bullet"></td>
<td class="text"></td>
</tr>
</table>
Well, duh, there is NO string in the 2nd column. This should also have
an <A> tag for the URL to their Advanced Search page. If you look at a
page where there is an input field and followed by the empty bullet and
the bullet to Search Help, you see:
<tr>
<td class="bullet"></td>
<td class="text"></td> <--- There is NO text or URL here!
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="bullet"></td>
<td class="text"><a href="/?scid=gp;[ln];searchhelp" id="L_278"
title="Get search help">Search Help</a></td>
So they managed to get the <A> tag with its URL to display okay for the
help page (which isn't much help and really is just a placeholder page).
But the first bullet is obviously missing the <A> tag with the URL to
their advanced search page. So if someone knows what is that URL then I
can go there directly rather than trying to rely on links on the basic
search pages but which are missing.