Short word search restriction

[Necros]

I think the restriction on short words for the forum search is very annoying and it makes it hard to find a bucket load of things....

A lot of the names for car components are abbreviated to very short names... Such as ABV or ECU. Or what about trying to search for a fault code? Say 'Fault Code 51' only actually searches for 'Fault Code'. The old forums didnt have this restriction.

Some might argue that with short words it will make the search results to broad. But that why we put things like 'Fault Code' to go with it. It's frustrating when I have to goto google to find somthing thats on the forum already.

With that said, I really do think these forums are a wealth of information and I would be lost without them... But like all wealth it can be somtimes hard to acquire

[Nark]

Just use Google and add "site:toymods.net/forums" to the end of your query.

ie: 1g site:toymods.net/forums

[Necros]

Nice one!

Where would the net be without google...

Just use Google and add "site:toymods.net/forums" to the end of your query.

ie: 1g site:toymods.net/forums

[Bored?]

Still, it should be pretty trivial to change vBulletin to handle short terms. Probably just a matter of changing a constant somewhere in the configuration. I agree that it's annoying, and given that it's not hard to fix, why not?

[Nark]

Yes, there is a configuration option, the problem is that once you drop down the limit, the database search index will balloon because it will index words such as:

• are
• the
• yes
• was

This will eat into disk space as well as slow the server down. That's why we haven't enabled it.

For now, Google works, so please use that.

[wagonist]

I believe we looked into the possibility of excluding certain 3 letter words like ABS, GT4, and numerous others, but there has always been an issue that stopped it.

[JBs]

That google search is awesome, thanks +rep.
Cheers

[MR22ZZ]

I believe we looked into the possibility of excluding certain 3 letter words like ABS, GT4, and numerous others, but there has always been an issue that stopped it.

as far as I know this still works, as with 2ZZ, 2JZ, 1JZ etc. They have been included as exceptions to the 3 character rule

[RONA]

http://www.toymods.net/forums/showth...rt+word+search

Original thread where this was discussed.

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another thing i've found that works is to use a wildcard to make it 4 letters.

So if im searching GT4, ill use GT4* which most times works.

[thechuckster]

perhaps add a canned Google search facility on the search page?

[twentyEight]

Mmmm... Just as I suspected, the abbreviation "FTW" is used way too many times on Toymods!

Google search: FTW site:www.toymods.net

[Nark]

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,570 from www.toymods.net for FTW.