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It's extremely annoying that the search engine ignores words with 3 letters or less, it's impossible to search for things like led, LOC, 16x, mod etc. Please fix

This has already been posted... IIRC...It seems this works... I haven't tried it
myself..

For three letter word searches.. such as LOC... just add some Null Characters
like this... "LOC***"

BTW have you seen this thread....

http://laserpointerforums.com/f36/t...scribe-subject-not-woot-check-dude-40185.html



[EDIT]
I just tried the above trick... and it doesn't seem to work...
the Search engine is also looking for the null characters...
If someone else has a trick around the 4 character minimum search
I'd be interested as well...:cryyy:


Jerry

I have tried that already. Also, yes, I have seen that thread, I thought the title was decent.

the search term needs to be limited to at least 3 chars b/c otherwise too broad of a search can overload the database. for example imagine searching for something like 'a' or 'the'

i would suggest putting something at the end of the search like laser or something else general

That doesn't work. For example, yesterday I tried to find info on SXD modules, it's imposible. The search ignores the word sxd and only searches for "module", and I only find o-like and rayfoss modules. I don't know how to expand "sxd" to be longer than 3-4 chars anyway

it's a common problem in vbulletin scripts, but here also the trick of the quotes don't work.

I mean, in some scripts where is enabled the phrase search, is enough put the 3 letter words inside quotes, like "LPF", this way the engine search the exact phrase inside the quotes (google style), and ignore the fact that the word is too short ..... but here, also using this trick, you don't get the "too short word" error, but the engine still found nothing ..... and also adding a space inside the quotes don't work, cause the engine automatically substitute the space with asterisk in the search string ..... and, at the same time, perhaps do not considerate the space a valid character for search ..... strange .....

maybe just enabling the literal phrase search can solve the problem, so the script still ignore the 3 letters words in normal search, but use them in phrase search ? ..... if can be done in this version, ofcourse

lasersbee said:

This has already been posted... IIRC...It seems this works... I haven't tried it
myself..

For three letter word searches.. such as LOC... just add some Null Characters
like this... "LOC***"

BTW have you seen this thread....

http://laserpointerforums.com/f36/t...scribe-subject-not-woot-check-dude-40185.html



[EDIT]
I just tried the above trick... and it doesn't seem to work...
the Search engine is also looking for the null characters...
If someone else has a trick around the 4 character minimum search
I'd be interested as well...:cryyy:


Jerry

Click to expand...

You can do a google search of the site for things with 3 characters or less.

just type this operator in google:

Can't you just put a wild card letter in (not joking) I think * is for 7-8 letters (cant remember) ? is 1 letter and i think there is one more cant remember... hold on ill try it out!

EDIT: just did a search for LOC* and SXD* the problem with using * is that it picks up 7-8 differnt combinations of letters after the word.. i did this on purpose to show you the results

This is what happened when i typed LOC*



See 500 results.. it found peoples information off to the left <---- where it says location! not just LOC

This is what happened when i searched SXD*



Only 3 results!

I also tried the search LOC? and SXD? This does not work on this websites search but it is a valid SQL wild card character.. so I'm not to sure y thats not working.. Im guessing ? is defined as a character not a SQL character... maybe c0ld can help us out on this one!

Try my method above I believe it is the best way to do it without changing anything on the forum.

hey guys i added a new feature that is a google search constrained to LPF basically. hope this is useful. LPF gets regular updates on google and its accuracy should improve over the next few weeks

this is a good alternative if the vbulletin search isn't working well for short search terms