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Dennis Piccioni
6-Mar-2009, 12:17 PM
Hi,

we've just modified the vBulletin default of the 4 character-minimum to 3 characters, since a lot of technical searches are for 3 character words (x64, DEO, DDO, etc.).

Please search away!

hellboy
10-Mar-2009, 11:41 PM
Hi,

we've just modified the vBulletin default of the 4 character-minimum to 3 characters, since a lot of technical searches are for 3 character words (x64, DEO, DDO, etc.).

Please search away!
Hi Dennis,
How much smaller can this search term size be realistically lowered? Today I had run a search on "error 57", which, being that error is a pretty common term, and 57 too small, was pretty unhelpful.

Dennis Piccioni
11-Mar-2009, 11:42 AM
Hi Dennis,
How much smaller can this search term size be realistically lowered? Today I had run a search on "error 57", which, being that error is a pretty common term, and 57 too small, was pretty unhelpful.

Hi Matt,

yeah, I think 2 is too small, though. Then it will fill the index with a gazillion words like to, of, if, etc.

hellboy
11-Mar-2009, 06:24 PM
Hi Matt,

yeah, I think 2 is too small, though. Then it will fill the index with a gazillion words like to, of, if, etc.
Yeah, that's what I figured.

David Martinko
11-Mar-2009, 11:35 PM
I did a search on [error 57] (no brackets) and it came back with a few posts with the word [error].

Then I did a search on ["error 57"], and it did not find this thread. I expected it to return results where "error 57" occurred together (without quotes). It found nothing.

I also tried [error+57] and it again returned all threads with [error].
Maybe this all still has to do with the fact that 57 is 2 char?

wila
16-Mar-2009, 12:27 PM
Hi Dennis,
How much smaller can this search term size be realistically lowered? Today I had run a search on "error 57", which, being that error is a pretty common term, and 57 too small, was pretty unhelpful.

Well my suggestion was to just use google instead. However... it seems that the forums are not indexed at all over at google ??????

Try this search:
error site:dataccess.com

now do the same on:
error site:vmware.com

See what I mean?

Do'h!

--
Wil

Allan Greis Eriksen
16-Mar-2009, 12:37 PM
That just means that VmWare products has fare more errors than dataaccess products... or how is it?! *VBG*

(Sorry, Wil. Couldn't resist)

Pak
16-Mar-2009, 01:30 PM
Wila (Wil?),

Try "site:support.dataaccess.com" instead; you'll (probably) get the results you're looking for.

(BTW, oops...I just reported your post instead of answering it! :o Sorry...)

Bob Fenske
16-Mar-2009, 01:40 PM
Wila (Wil?),

Try "site:support.dataaccess.com" instead; you'll (probably) get the results you're looking for.

(BTW, oops...I just reported your post instead of answering it! :o Sorry...)


Darn, thought i had a ban target ... :rolleyes:

Pak
16-Mar-2009, 01:45 PM
I know...shocking lapse in protocol. Next thing you know, I'll be reporting the administrators to themselves! ;)

wila
18-Mar-2009, 12:53 PM
Wila (Wil?),

Try "site:support.dataaccess.com" instead; you'll (probably) get the results you're looking for.

(BTW, oops...I just reported your post instead of answering it! :o Sorry...)
Umm.. yes it is Wil..

You didn't try what you are suggesting here did you? :D

That was my first test and it did not work.. just like the broader search without the subdomain reference doesn't work.

I can just remember that one of the quoted reasons of this whole web forum was to be visible on google searches. So far... not with success
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Wil

Pak
18-Mar-2009, 01:04 PM
Hi Wil,

Try it without the quotes (I should have been more specific about that) - it works for me.

This is a search I did today:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&hs=sxe&q=site%3Asupport.dataaccess.com+crash+view&btnG=Search&meta=
which was the result of entering the following in the google search box:

site:support.dataaccess.com crash view

I'm not saying that's all the messages with the words "crash" and "view" in it - hard to verify that one - but at least it does find some messages.

wila
18-Mar-2009, 01:11 PM
:o Hi Pak,

Actually the devil is in the details... i wrote site:dataccess.com and not site:dataaccess.com

Hmm... OOOPS yes it works when you write the domain correctly.
Better ..pfeewww

So in conclusion use google searches and make sure you have enough "a"-s in your domain name restriction :rolleyes:
--
Wil

Pak
19-Mar-2009, 03:40 AM
No worries, Wil! Glad to see that it's working for you too.

Dennis Piccioni
27-Jun-2009, 03:36 PM
Hi Matt,

we just changed the search engine the forums use, so you now search for "error 57" (with quotes). See the Search FAQ (http://support.dataaccess.com/forums/showthread.php?p=193181) for more.

Larry Heiges
28-Jun-2009, 10:37 PM
Hi Dennis,
How much smaller can this search term size be realistically lowered? Today I had run a search on "error 57", which, being that error is a pretty common term, and 57 too small, was pretty unhelpful.
I think all numeric values would be valid inclusions.