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 'Search' on LYN forum could be better, just wondering.. can this be fixed

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TSJ-Slade
post Oct 10 2006, 09:29 PM, updated 20y ago

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Hi everyone, firstly thanks for reading this post. I really appreciate it if this can be improved.

I am quite a new member to LYN but an active one. I have been using the search feature for quite some time and I realise there is a flaw. It does not allow us to search for queries less than 4 characters..

Just like today i was looking for anyone sellling thermaltake blue orb II, I went to the garage sales section and tried

'blue orb ii' <---cannot cos does not recognise orb and ii
'blue' <--- XD this was simply ridiculous obviously
'thermaltake' <--- too many search results
'thermaltake blue' <--- returns many results that are non related to the HSF that I am looking for..

Anyway, I just want to know if the admin peeps can do anything about this. Would really appreciate it. And I think it will benefit other forumers too... anyone agree with me? icon_rolleyes.gif

This post has been edited by J-Slade: Oct 10 2006, 09:31 PM
TSJ-Slade
post Oct 10 2006, 09:43 PM

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QUOTE(Mgsrulz @ Oct 10 2006, 09:38 PM)
try using google if it is under 4 words.
it works for me smile.gif
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I noticed that works. But is there a way that we can integrate this google way of searching into the forums search engine? Including the parameters of " " (err.. i think only google users will understand what that does.. haha laugh.gif )

anyway, is there a way to do that.

*addon*

I wanna add smtg, the google search feature doesnt limit the search by subforums... so it'll just return results from the WHOLE forum which can return confusing results rclxub.gif

This post has been edited by J-Slade: Oct 10 2006, 09:44 PM
TSJ-Slade
post Oct 10 2006, 10:01 PM

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QUOTE(Mgsrulz @ Oct 10 2006, 09:50 PM)
how about this?
include the word "garage sale" in the search column,and only the garage sales section will be searched thumbup.gif
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I've been playing around with the search feature.. the google one... yea I guess adding " " will bring u to the right subforum... but it will return many many results some of which are repeats. I really like the LYN forum search engine. Would be really good if it can search for words with 3 characters and below ... at least 3 characters la.. 2 characters will be a bit too much cos it will return waaaay to many results.
TSJ-Slade
post Oct 10 2006, 10:49 PM

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I see... I guess it isnt so easy after all. But hey, all the best to the admins for their hard work in improving the forums...

Thanks guys for listening =)

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