Forum search pages don't behave

When I do a search of a forum and get some results, the bottom of the page indicates the number of results and there is the option of selecting other pages when there are more results than one page can hold. When I want to go to page 2 for example the resulting page is either blank or repeats the first page. What am I missing?
Thanks

If you just start google from your browser and select a forum link you now get...

Access denied.

This is a recent change.

Rick G

I have seen similar issues when searching.
I found that when you want to open one of the search results, right click, and open to a new tab or window, and it displays OK.

Still, it is very annoying.


Ray

This problem seems to have worsened

If you use google (from forum pages or external) Yahoo, Alta Vista or any other engine, any hit which links to the forum rather than the docs etc on the main linuxorg.com site, is redirected to

softstore4business.net/ which sells windoze software. (Sounds like a candidate for a DOS attack.)

Makes it almost impossible to search the forum, particularly infuriating when you know the info you want was posted, but cannot be sure if it was under the obvious subject heading or was an off topic mention on another thread.

Needs to be sorted or we will lose members and be condemned to the same questions over and over, because no-one can find the answer themselves, even if they look.

Hi John

Thing is I won't want to search for that topic, because it is there in front of me on the forum page.

If you search for 'axis g code window' as I was, using the built in google, every link to the forum goes to softstore4business.net/
whether the title is hacked or appears normal.

I eventually found what I wanted when I remembered that a particular member had posted and searched his forum entries.

I think the long term answer is to either repair the internal forum search mechanism or dump Kunena and switch to something that actually works properly.

We have relied for too long upon Google for something that should be possible through the forum and now that google and apparantly the other search engines (which are probably lazy and just harvest google) are well and truly hacked, we have nothing.

I appreciate that it will be a lot of work either way, but you don't get these problems on other forums, with other hosting engines.

regards