The search feature

[kendo]

New poster! (less than 10 posts)

Why cant you use three letter words like EFI or F1j or t28 in the boards search button, Is there some way of putting it in? Im getting annoyed cause im trying to look for info on stuff and kepp getting a message saying TOO SHORT:cry:

[Scoff]

The minimum number of charachters in the text search is 4, so "EFI" won't work as you've discovered. It is set to 4 so that the site doesn't index the 10000's of 3 letter words that apear in every post. Setting it to 3 would slow the search feature and increase the already very big forum database. Sorry :)

[RICHIE]

The minimum number of charachters in the text search is 4, so "EFI" won't work as you've discovered. It is set to 4 so that the site doesn't index the 10000's of 3 letter words that apear in every post. Setting it to 3 would slow the search feature and increase the already very big forum database. Sorry :)

which is why its important for people to write there thread topics title acurately so it can be searched

[Andrew Cooke]

is it possible to add exceptions to the 4 letter rule? There are quite a few useful ones:

T2
T25
T28
T3
LSD
EFI
AFR
TIP/EBP
MAP
etc....

Oh, Kendo, have you tried standing on a box? My PC has never told me that I'm too short:scratch:

[kendo]

New poster! (less than 10 posts)


The minimum number of charachters in the text search is 4, so "EFI" won't work as you've discovered. It is set to 4 so that the site doesn't index the 10000's of 3 letter words that apear in every post. Setting it to 3 would slow the search feature and increase the already very big forum database. Sorry :)


I see, just seems to be everything im looking for only has 3 letters. typical:)

[kendo]

New poster! (less than 10 posts)


is it possible to add exceptions to the 4 letter rule? There are quite a few useful ones:

T2
T25
T28
T3
LSD
EFI
AFR
TIP/EBP
MAP
etc....

Oh, Kendo, have you tried standing on a box? My PC has never told me that I'm too short:scratch:

A fine idea.

Im still growing andy, just outwards sadly:sad:

[UNICRONICUS]

Even if you type in 'T25 Turbo' it still won't search for posts with ALL of these words in it. Instead it searches for these words separately which is pretty useless.

[Tiny Tim]

Try 'T25+Turbo'

[UNICRONICUS]

Try 'T25+Turbo'

Nope, still only searches for individual words.

[kendo]

New poster! (less than 10 posts)

I know, its annoying - can we change this?

[R5GTTRaider]

try "t25 turbo" it works for me

what that does is find t25 and turbo together, but dont know what the exeptions are

maybe if they changed the settings if there is any, to allow " " or + to specificly ask for t25 and turbro to lie next to each other in that order to become a match

[Scoff]

T25 turbo won't work in the search feature because T25 has only 3 charachters. Any 2 words with 4 or more charachters work fine.

I can't make exceptions to the search words sadly, the software isn't clever enough. I agree it's a pain in the ass, I will try dropping the minimum length down to 3, I think it will slow the search quite a lot though.

[R5GTTRaider]

T25 turbo won't work in the search feature because T25 has only 3 charachters. Any 2 words with 4 or more charachters work fine.

I can't make exceptions to the search words sadly, the software isn't clever enough. I agree it's a pain in the ass, I will try dropping the minimum length down to 3, I think it will slow the search quite a lot though.
give it a go, if its to slow then change it back, no harm done!

[Scoff]

Ok, I've made the changes, but for the site to be able to search posts made before today I will have to rebuild the search index. That's a bit of a mission, I'll do it in the next few days.