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| Thread ID: 121705 | 2011-11-08 02:42:00 | Forum Search doesn't like 3 letter words... | BBCmicro (15761) | PC World Chat |
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| 1242421 | 2011-11-08 02:42:00 | I tried to search on VHD - it said the word must have 5 letters This is quite a limitation - it's unlikely anyone would write VHD out in full Hopefully Jen is right: "Yeah, it doesn't search on short words (3 lettered). This is something the IDG website gnomes can hopefully look into when they return from the Christmas break." |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1242422 | 2011-11-08 03:06:00 | I doubt they would change that - would make the indices h-u-g-e! just think of a better keyword(s) for what you are looking for ....or use google to search the site for the 3 or 4 letter words if necessary :) "VHD" site:http://pressf1.pcworld.co.nz/ (...copy that line and pop it into google) |
bevy121 (117) | ||
| 1242423 | 2011-11-08 03:24:00 | How about that. I ran into the same restriction today for the first time when I was searching for UPS. Again, no one tends to write it out in full. As bevy121 has essentially pointed out I don't see why sites even try to index and provide a search facility for their own sites. Google's external search usually does a way better job. |
AvonBill (11358) | ||
| 1242424 | 2011-11-08 04:26:00 | We used to have a custom Google search bar on the forum that searched the PC World sites - must have gone walk-about in the last upgrade. The only problem with that was it searched the entire PC World site so you got blogs, articles and everything else in the search. | Jen (38) | ||
| 1242425 | 2011-11-08 06:44:00 | ... "VHD" site:http://pressf1.pcworld.co.nz/ (...copy that line and pop it into google) Brilliant. Worked a treat. VHD works a treat too. I used it to inspect an old Windows 7 Image Backup that I no longer have the hardware for, looking for a Thunderbird profile that I omitted to copy. I got that going, detached the VHD, then realised I hadn't backed up Filezilla server data. So re-attached it and got that too. It's so easy. Why haven't I been told about it before? |
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