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Old 12-06-2019, 12:40 PM   #1
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Is anyone else having a problem with the site search feature, or has there been a recent change as to how it works?


For the last week or so, I find that only searches for a single work give any results. If you search for 2 or more words, no results.
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Old 13-06-2019, 09:02 AM   #2
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Seems to be working fine for me - try (because it's a heuristic search) joining words with + (e.g race+team) and remember that all search terms must be greater than 3 characters.
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I’ve had dramas, didn’t know if it was cos I was using my phone
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Old 16-06-2019, 06:02 AM   #4
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Seems to be working fine now, so was probably just me getting it wrong
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remember that all search terms must be greater than 3 characters.
Is there any way this can be changed? Or is it hard coded?

I understand the basic premise, that it doesn't waste time searching for words like 'the', 'at', 'is', etc.
But it's a PITA on a motoring forum, especially given the penchant for acronyms.
Can't search for ABS, DPF, FPV, BF, GT, etc.
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Old 17-02-2022, 07:49 AM   #6
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Is there any way this can be changed? Or is it hard coded?

I understand the basic premise, that it doesn't waste time searching for words like 'the', 'at', 'is', etc.
But it's a PITA on a motoring forum, especially given the penchant for acronyms.
Can't search for ABS, DPF, FPV, BF, GT, etc.
The minimum search word length is 3 characters so terms like ABS, DPF, FPV etc. are all covered. In addition we have a number of 2 letter terms covering the Ford model codes included in the search function. It's not to save 'time' doing the search, it's designed to keep the size of the search data in the database (it's an indexed search) to a reasonable size.
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Old 18-02-2022, 02:42 AM   #7
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The minimum search word length is 3 characters so terms like ABS, DPF, FPV etc. are all covered.
Well dang, what am I doing wrong? DPF doesn't work for me, and neither does ABS
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