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"sorry, LL forum search requires only >=4 letter words, try again" (paraphrase)
I'll give ya some four letter words you #*@! search engine.
The forum search feature will not allow me to include a TLA or three letter word in my searches (like "jab").
Needless to say, I find this setting to be rather inconvenient.
My "suggestion", since that is why I'm posting here, eh?, would be to change the search feature to require 3+ letter words, rather than four.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if this change is "out of your hands" vis a vis Invision hardcoding or something.
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I looked through all the admin menus and yes, this is out of my hands and unchangeable. Maybe a future release of IPBoard...it's a good idea considering the number of three-letter abbreviations we use now.
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Wouldn't it be possible to use a search-engine (site) for searching though?
[Edit] 1+1+1+1=3
But still, searching for 1.10 or 1.09 is said to be "too few characters", or with quotation marks "no results found"?!?
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*Bump*
I went to Invision's forums and did a search on 'search' (lucky 'search' is >= 4 letters lol). Apparently this limitation is because of MySQL. Remind me to never even contemplate using MySQL for anything.
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Malakar,Feb 18 2005, 02:47 AM Wrote:*Bump*
I went to Invision's forums and did a search on 'search' (lucky 'search' is >= 4 letters lol). Apparently this limitation is because of MySQL. Remind me to never even contemplate using MySQL for anything.
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It's not a SQL problem. VBulletin uses MySQL, and you can set the minimum search length there manually. It's an invision board issue.
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adamantine,Dec 8 2003, 04:36 PM Wrote:Wouldn't it be possible to use a search-engine (site) for searching though?
[Edit] 1+1+1+1=3
But still, searching for 1.10 or 1.09 is said to be "too few characters", or with quotation marks "no results found"?!?
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Yeah, I do stuff like that all the time. Just go to google and do a
site:www.lurkerlounge.com <search term>
Sure this will end up searching the content page but I did a
site:www.lurkerlounge.com jab
just for giggles and only got 281 results. And it wasn't too hard to skim for what was in the forums.
But yeah, I use google to search websites without search engines all the time and on some places that do because it can often work better.
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adamantine,Dec 8 2003, 04:36 PM Wrote:Wouldn't it be possible to use a search-engine (site) for searching though?
[Edit] 1+1+1+1=3
But still, searching for 1.10 or 1.09 is said to be "too few characters", or with quotation marks "no results found"?!?
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Are you suggesting that one can edit the search tool, and fool it into thinking 3 = 4?
That's interesting. Wonder if it will work.
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