CleverStat.com

[Gary]

Hi.

First off, I can't seem to delete a keyword from the list. I can get to the edit function, select the offending item and click <delete>, but although the little edit screen shows it gone, it remains stubbornly on the main list. I've tried stopping and restarting the program, and rebooting, but no joy. I've updated to the latest greatest miniversion tonight but it's the same as the previous one. I've tried shouting at the screen and pretending to look the other way for a moment in case it disappears from view. In a moment of desperation, I even tried hunting for a simple configuration file I could edit directly but no such luck. What next? Delete the whole keyword list and start again? Pay for an upgrade? Turn three times and recite "GoogleMon" or "CleverStat" in reverent terms perhaps?

Also, I've noticed that the program forgets a keyword's previous best position if the keyword cannot be found in a new Google query. As some of my keywords flutter around Google's lower and darkest extremes (boo hoo), this is quite a common occurrence for me. Unfortunately.

And that's another thing. The display sometimes freezes during a query until the program next updates the query progress dialog box. Clicking <Cancel> to abort the current search seems to have no effect until the program completes the current keyword. Clicking <Stop> at the apparent end of a search (when all the green blobs are up) also takes ages to do anything. Am I being too impatient? Too much caffeine perhaps?

It might speed things up if the program would stop querying Google a (configurable?) number of results after finding my keywords. E.g. if my keyword is #55, stop searching beyond item #65 and move immediately on to the next keyword. That way I could set the number of results to check option to a high number without waiting all evening for a result.

Minor annoyances like that aside, it's a handy utility and unbeatable value for money

G.

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[Guest]

Hello again.

Thanks for the quick response.

I've double-checked the keyword deletion thing. In the keyword editing box, I select the offending item, click <delete> then click <Yes> on the confirmation dialogue. The offending item disappears from the little edit box, sure enough, but remains visible on the main screen. After I shut the editing box (which is when I guessed it might update the main list), it is still there on the main screen. It won't go away. It haunts me.

G.

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[Administrator]

[Gary]

Thanks for the new build.

The 'can't delete a keyword' problem is still there. I am clicking <OK> to close the little edit box.

The offending item is the first keyword on my list. In my case the keyword is "ISO 17799" (without the quotes!). It looks perfectly innocuous but in fact it is haunting me. I have added a new keyword "iso 17799" which, curiously, seems to give quite different results to the original for some reason and now I would like to delete the original one to tidy things up.

I've experimented a bit with the same keywords in UPPER and lower case: the program doesn't seem to like me entering such a combination. Perhaps this is the cause of my problem?

[Oh oh - on switching back and forth to the Free Monitor for Google window in the course of composing this message, the program's user interface died suddenly although Windows Task Manager showed the GoogleMon task remained running. Just a spurious happening or maybe the new release has a stability problem?]

G.

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