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05-07-2006, 12:53 AM
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pliable
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Juneau, Alaska
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Searching
I just tried to search up "air brush" because I was looking for something I'd posted sometime ago, and th esearch automatically cut out the word "air," making my search pretty useless. I had this happen the other day as well when I tried to search up something with three words and it cut out two of the words, again making it rather useless. I'm pretty sure it's cutting out my words because they're only three letters, and search engines typically cut out shorter, commonly used words like "and," "the," "is," and "if."
It'd be real nice to have a more intuitive search function, if it's within the limits of VBulletin programming.
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05-07-2006, 02:00 PM
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Wordsmith
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: New York
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Is that with advanced searching? I believe you can search for all terms, and doing so won't cut out your words.
EDIT: Never mind, I was thinking about phpBB. Yeah, the search function is annoying.
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05-07-2006, 04:17 PM
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Penguin-in-Chief
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Edinburgh
Gender: Male
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Yup, vB seems to cut out words of three letters or less.
Sadly modifying the PHP that powers the search function would be a serious amount of work. While not beyond Chris, I wouldn't get your hopes up.
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05-07-2006, 04:21 PM
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pliable
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Juneau, Alaska
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More than that!
Search up, "Pawn is mean" and it'll cut out the word "mean."
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05-07-2006, 04:24 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Les Etats-Unis
Gender: Female
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I've tried searching for things too, its useless.
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