Search Limitations

lowlylowlycook

So as it stands, you cannot search with keywords less the 4 characters long. That makes sense, but would it be possible to relax that if a few cases that are important around here say:

Wii
PS3
360
PSP
DS

Obviously if it was a lot of work it wouldn't be worth it, but I think it would make a lot of searches easier.

Tube

Searching for any of those would return so many results as to be basically worthless anyway.

Drez

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

Searching for any of those would return so many results as to be basically worthless anyway.

I assume he means that you cannot use it as a supplemental or limiting keyword. So if I wanted to find a post where someone was simultaneously talking about me and the Wii I could not do so by plugging "drez wii" into a keyword search. Having "wii" in the keyword search at all yields an error.

Unless I'm misunderstanding how the search works. It's defaulted to search for "all terms," right?

Moe Fwacky

lol egosearching

seriously though, the search rapes the servers enough with a 4 character minimum, a 3 character minimum would increase the raping exponentially.

Satan.

Moe Fwacky wrote: »

lol egosearching

seriously though, the search rapes the servers enough with a 4 character minimum, a 3 character minimum would increase the raping exponentially.

But aren't we all about the brutal rape of technology around here?

Moe Fwacky

Yes, but only when it's the brutal rape of technology we don't have to use regularly.

lowlylowlycook

Drez wrote: »

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

Searching for any of those would return so many results as to be basically worthless anyway.

I assume he means that you cannot use it as a supplemental or limiting keyword. So if I wanted to find a post where someone was simultaneously talking about me and the Wii I could not do so by plugging "drez wii" into a keyword search. Having "wii" in the keyword search at all yields an error.

Unless I'm misunderstanding how the search works. It's defaulted to search for "all terms," right?

This is what I had in mind. But now that I think about it, this does start down a slippery slope, i.e. why not allow rpg ...

Drez

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

Drez wrote: »

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

Searching for any of those would return so many results as to be basically worthless anyway.

I assume he means that you cannot use it as a supplemental or limiting keyword. So if I wanted to find a post where someone was simultaneously talking about me and the Wii I could not do so by plugging "drez wii" into a keyword search. Having "wii" in the keyword search at all yields an error.

Unless I'm misunderstanding how the search works. It's defaulted to search for "all terms," right?

This is what I had in mind. But now that I think about it, this does start down a slippery slope, i.e. why not allow rpg ...

Or "rap" or "pro" or "cat" or "hat" or "egg"?

Right now, you cannot search for "the cat in the hat" which is kind of depressing.

LewieP

Drez wrote: »

lowlylowlycook wrote: »

Drez wrote: »

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

Searching for any of those would return so many results as to be basically worthless anyway.

I assume he means that you cannot use it as a supplemental or limiting keyword. So if I wanted to find a post where someone was simultaneously talking about me and the Wii I could not do so by plugging "drez wii" into a keyword search. Having "wii" in the keyword search at all yields an error.

Unless I'm misunderstanding how the search works. It's defaulted to search for "all terms," right?

This is what I had in mind. But now that I think about it, this does start down a slippery slope, i.e. why not allow rpg ...

Or "rap" or "pro" or "cat" or "hat" or "egg"?

Right now, you cannot search for "the cat in the hat" which is kind of depressing.

This should be the test of any search engine.

Pemulis

Cardboard Tube wrote: »

Searching for any of those would return so many results as to be basically worthless anyway.

The only time this would be useful would be for searching thread titles. Maybe this would cut down on "Recommend me some Wii/PS3/360 games" threads, although probably not.

Paladin

To whom it may concern;


Putting a wildcard (*) anywhere in the search term gives you a 'less than four' error. Thank you for your consideration.


Sincerely,

Me Too!

Pretty sure that was disabled by Ramius a while ago.

Deusfaux

i dont think it was particularly disabled; i've seen is as a standard on pretty much every vBulletin I've visited.

We didn't have it before, but that's because we weren't on vBulletin.