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Thread ID: 135597	2013-11-21 21:37:00	Can the PressF1 search please be fixed	1101 (13337)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1360555	2013-11-21 21:37:00	Hi mods Can the search function please be fixed. Ive had this sort of thing a few times now. Not sure why some words arnt allowed in searches It just means I now have to use Google to search PF1 quoteth The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search: MYOB	1101 (13337)
1360556	2013-11-22 02:11:00	It's not broken, it's configured that way. The minimum length for search terms is currently 5 characters, imo it should be either 4 or 3 though.	inphinity (7274)
1360557	2013-11-22 07:32:00	The news is a bit vague on whether the search tool can be fixed, at the moment we can't find an answer	R2x1 (4628)
1360558	2013-11-22 10:27:00	As inphinity said - it's a setting, not a problem that needs fixed... The default is 4 characters, but Fairfax in their desperate need to keep server load at ridiculously low levels, must have set it at 5. There is probably no reason now it couldn't be reset to 4 or even 3 as inphinity suggests. It would be up to whoever the site admin is now over the ditch to do it or give the go ahead to Chill or someone to do it. It's probably using the "Fulltext search engine" rather than v Bulletin's built in one, so it would simply need the "ft_min_word_len=5" changed to 4 or 3 in the config file, and then to "rebuild the search indexes" done... :)	bevy121 (117)
1360559	2013-11-22 22:06:00	Idiotic for a computer forum, many names\words\acronyms etc may be as little as 2 characters.	Agent_24 (57)
1360560	2013-11-22 22:12:00	yes, but but imagine how many results there would be for 2 character searches - that would be a bit too far lol ..and would spike server cpu considerably on execution	bevy121 (117)
1360561	2013-11-22 22:27:00	True but annoying. Say if you want to find a post exclusively about Windows 95 - you can't search for 'Windows 95' since it just drops the 95 and finds everything containing 'Windows' Even '"Windows 95"' doesn't work, and neither does '*95'	Agent_24 (57)
1360562	2013-11-22 22:54:00	actualy - if you search for "Windows 95" enclosed in the quotes, it WILL bring back the desired results I just tried it to confirm not using the advanced search, just the basic one on the right of the grey menu bar under the pc world banner . ALSO - if you search for MYOB as 1101 wanted, this will bring the correct results as well if enclosed - "MYOB" results : 7 pages with MYOB in the content Search: Keyword(s): "MYOB" . . . Page 1 of 7	bevy121 (117)
1360563	2013-11-22 23:25:00	actualy - if you search for "Windows 95" enclosed in the quotes, it WILL bring back the desired results I just tried it to confirm Are you sure? Searching 'Windows 95' with or without quotes brings back 20 pages of results for each, which appear to be identical. That should not be correct, surely?	Agent_24 (57)
1360564	2013-11-23 01:32:00	Haha - that search engine is doing some crazy $hit :) it says 20 pages regardless of how many pages there actually are! lol once you find the last page, it will then realize and display the correct number of page results.... until you do a new search, then it's 20 again! hahaha however - enclosing in quotes definitely brings better results.... ================================================== ============== search for windows 95 (no quotes) result = Search:Keyword(s): windows - 13 pages results but search seems to be confined to only threads started in the last 5 months or so?? and only looks for "windows" not very helpful results at all ================================================== =============== search for "windows 95" result = Search:Keyword(s): "windows 95" - 13 pages results These results are MUCH better - still 13 pages, but all referencing "windows 95" and results from as far back as September 1998! some results will be "windows" alone and "95" alone, but most will be "windows 95" all keywords will be highlighted in the posts not perfect as far as search engines go, but pretty good results	bevy121 (117)
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