Question on short word searching?

[dave368]

Hi guys,

I realise there are very good reasons for excluding short search terms (i.e. 3 characters or less), but how do you search on things like "w58"?

Trying to do a little research and check out some stuff for a w58 gearbox, but I can't search on "w58". Unfortunately searching on "w58 gearbox" (with quotes) gets you nothing and without quotes the search engine excludes w58 as it is too short.

Unfortunately this also applies when searching for the term "FAQ". A little ironic really when you try and look for them to answer a question like this

Any info would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Dave

[myne]

yep. I agree

[Joshstix]

Good point. There is a way to add short words that are searchable, when I first set this up I included all the common engine codes but forgot gearbox ones and obviously FAQ.

If people have suggestions for any short words that should be able to be searched post them here and I'll get them included.

[dave368]

Thanks Josh. As well as the gearbox and diff codes (I don't know anything about toyota diffs but I assume they are coded similarly to gearboxes), what about common terms like BOV, i/c, ecu?

Cheers,
Dave

[Big T]

Just a note about this as well.... some people tend to write model codes and stuff separately such as "aw 11" I know it'll probably be a bitch trying to find every combination for that stuff though.

Eddie.

[brett_celicacoupe]

another problem i found out once, but with short word posting is that if you quote info from another person or site etc, and dont add some of your own words, than it says please type 10 characters minimum. i just put full stops in there


whats the deal with that? im not bitching, just curious why ther is a minimum

[hi-ace]

Brett, the 10 character min stops the thread from being filled with replies like"me to" "lol" and the likes.

[ed]

google: "short word string" site:http://toymods.net/forums

[Bananaman]

Might i suggest adding 13", 14", 15", 17" etc etc to the short word list? I often tried searching for tyres for sale for example (on the old forum), or wheels, and its not possible. It would also cater for the "can i fit 20" on my sprinter?!11one" type threads also.

[takai]

And also for the tech section can TIO be added.

[thu187]

You can use google to search the toymods forum (or any site for that matter)

simply type in

[keywords] site:[url of site]

so if you wanted to search for w58

you'd type in

w58 site:toymods.net

[Toycrash]

You can use google to search the toymods forum (or any site for that matter)

simply type in

[keywords] site:[url of site]

so if you wanted to search for w58

you'd type in

w58 site:toymods.net

Mine must be broken then?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

Gearboxes, engines, wheel diameters, turbo types and many more.

Even 5letter search would be awesome

[thu187]

Mine must be broken then?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

Gearboxes, engines, wheel diameters, turbo types and many more.

Even 5letter search would be awesome

Nope, it's because the google spider hasn't crawled through toymods.net domain yet.

http://www.toymods.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1951

Check that out to see what I mean.

If you're looking for info though, chances are it's on the old site so try
w58 site:toymods.org.au

[Toycrash]

Oh well... Still me not likey

Was only looking for 3K-R thread to add some data, but hey... mayme next year :

[Draven]

a few more which I found today:

MAP, MAF, AFM