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Search function
Posted: 17 May 2012, 9:44am
by trecelyn
Hi
I'm not sure if it's me, but.........
In using the search function, I typed 'Lon ' into the search box in a specific forum. It returned nothing. When I typed 'Cymru' into the search box it returned several posts with 'Lon las Cymru' in the title. Why didn't the search function find 'Lon'?
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Re: Search function
Posted: 17 May 2012, 10:23am
by meic
It doesnt work for words with less than four letters.
Which makes searching for Lon Las rather hopeless.
Doesnt help if you switch to Route 8 either.
Cant find IQ Cyo, or IQ Fly or BB or many other words that are of common use on the Forum.
Re: Search function
Posted: 17 May 2012, 11:02am
by RickH
You can always use Google - if you search on "site:forum.ctc.org.uk lon" you get 219 hits, mostly likely to be relevant (it is near the bottom of the 3rd page before it picks up a Lon that looks like it it an abbreviation for London.
The "site:[website address]" modifier can be very useful where forum software searches fail.
Rick
Re: Search function
Posted: 17 May 2012, 11:40am
by Alex L
If you want to know the reason, read this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=57702
Re: Search function
Posted: 31 May 2012, 3:00pm
by gaz
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Re: Search function
Posted: 31 May 2012, 3:09pm
by Alex L
gaz wrote:meic wrote:It doesnt work for words with less than four letters.
Nor does it work with some gour letter words.
I can search "fork" succesfully but not "what" nor "here".
Common words are also on the chop because they appear too often. It is a feature of the forum software (although it can be turned off). This works much the same way as Google ignores some words. Do you need to search for those words?