Searching problems in the new forum

[nbnbtc]

Has anyone else noticed that the search function of this new forum isn't quite what it should be? For example, I tried to search for "A1" and it told me this:

"The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : A1"

This is not cool, plus all of the good threads I had marked as favorite in the last forum are lost to the wind now so I'd really like to be able to use that search function.

[Webmaster]

The search term has to be at least 4 characters long...othewise the search index would be too large!

If you are searching for something less than 4 characters long try a wildcard search: for example, you could try *A1*

[nbnbtc]

Well thanks but that still doesn't work, it says:




The search term you specified (*A1*) is under the minimum word length (4) and therefore will not be found. Please make this term longer. If this term contains a wildcard, please make this term more specific.


any ideas?

[Webmaster]

What are you searching for??? Steak sauce? ;)

In all seriousness, there is a practical limit to the search index as if we lowered it to 2 characters it would index EVERY word from each post...not very efficient and would make the size of the database about 4 times larger than it has to be.

Can you modify it to something else?

[JAKE87]

Webmaster, excellent and please continue working on it. I totally love searching terms like AE and FU. ;)

- Jake

[deb]

Webmaster, excellent and please continue working on it. I totally love searching terms like AE and FU. ;)

- JakeLOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
All laughing aside, I too had trouble looking up AeW. It didn't do squat! :rolleyes:

[Watcher]

Perhaps we should start posting the full word to make search results easier

Ie if i commented on AE *alter ego* could be put there to index it on search results ?

The database is very big though so issues may arise.

[Webmaster]

hhhmmm...if someone could make a list of all abbreviations that are used [less than 4 letters] than I can exempt those and ALWAYS index them. In addition, I can re-index the forum so they will show up when searching past threads.

[deb]

hhhmmm...if someone could make a list of all abbreviations that are used [less than 4 letters] than I can exempt those and ALWAYS index them. In addition, I can re-index the forum so they will show up when searching past threads.That would be helpful since they post a list of all the abbreviations and everyone on the forum talks the abbreviations, so it would stand to reason that this should take them also. I know, it was a run-on fragment like sentence, but hopefully you got it.;)

[Watcher]

I guess start with AE, PCC all the multi name pheromone products (more than one ie pheros) bruce and moderators should be able to help there - hey what happened to the link to the pheromone cookbook ?