Engines | Fix Engines

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This menu item allows you to fix any engines that may be broken. There are 2 steps:

·	See whether the engine is actually broken.

·	Fixing the engine.

This process should not take more than a couple of minutes to finish.

Step 1 - Identify Broken Engines

The Engines | Fix Engine menu item shows dialog box which contains one row for each engine request.

Look at the Status column to see whether an engine actually needs fixing or not. There are two possible states for the status column.

·	Green - the engine is working

·	Red - the engine may be having problems

If an engine is consistently red, then it needs to be fixed. An engine that is red once in a while is probably OK since there are other reasons for being red besides being broken.

·	The engine simply could not find any results that match the search terms.

·	Your internet connection may not be working at the time of the search.

·	The engine might have a filter that excludes certain adult-oriented results.

If none of these reasons apply, and the engine is consistently red, then you should fix the broken engine.

To fix an engine:

1.	just select a row where the engine has a red status and,

2.	click the Fix button, otherwise click the Cancel button to abort.

Note that you only need to fix an engine once, even if it has more than one request (or row) that is red. For example if Google-1 and Google-2 are two requests that are both red, just choose Google-1 to fix because that will fix Google-2 also.

Step 2 - Fix Broken Engines

Once the Fix button is clicked, then another screen appears where the actual fix to the engine is performed.

The main part if the screen is the search engine results page. Before each link in the results page is a checkbox. The idea is to checkmark those links at the start of each search result and leave the others empty. For example, if the results page has 10 search results, then 10 check boxes (the ones at the start of each result) should have checkmarks, and the others should be left empty.

To fix an engine, do the following steps:

1.	Enter Number of Search Results - count the number of search results that have a checkbox directly in front of them. Put this number in the number box.

2.	Mark the First Result (or correct the first mistake) - find the first search result in the web page and click its checkbox to mark it.

3.	Click Guess - click the Guess Button and iMetaSearch will attempt to find all the other search results.

4.	If Done, Then Click Finish - check how many search results iMetaSearch found in step 3 and see if it matches the actual number of search results in step 1. If they match, then click the Finish Button.

If the Guess Button did not find the right number of search results, or there was some mistake in marking the search results then repeat steps 2 and 3 above until all search results are marked correctly. To do this, just look down the checkboxes in the search results page, find the first mistake made by iMetaSearch and correct it.

A mistake could be marking a link that does not start a result, or not marking a link that does start a result. In either case, correct it and then click the Guess button again. Keep doing this until all the search results are marked.

You can click the Cancel button at any point to abort the Fix Engines procedure.