Search Set for searching retail sites problems

DEVONagent
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Hi. I need to search three particular retailers for products for a company I work for. I thought the best way to do this would be to put the sites in the Sites tab. It worked a couple of times when I set the mode for the sites from Crawl to Search, but then later on the exact same search wouldn’t return anything. It then worked again, and once again didn’t a little while later. I didn’t change anything in between. Also, things that I know are on the sites don’t show up (when the search is working, that is).

Here are screenshots of the General and Advanced tabs:

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Are retail sites hard to search for DA, or should I be looking at a plugin to do this (I don’t really understand plugins, to be honest).

Thanks in advance.

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It would depend on the site(s).

Is anything shown in the Log view after an unsuccessful search?

3

From memory (it’s working at the moment) it has the sites listed and then “Links: 0” in the error column.

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If it’s sporadically not working, it could be temporary suspensions by search engines thinking it’s not a human-initiated search.

5

Yeah, that makes sense. I hit the button a few times, so it might have triggered a stop. Thanks.

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You’re welcome.