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derrtyboy69

derrtyboy69

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Clouds

Scars Meadows [SMS]

Mo/Me

quite frankly this sites search engine blows, VERY VERY VEYRY VERy HARD. can we please stop filtering out words, so that people can actually find something

kzap

kzap

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

R/Mo

what are you looking for? i can add it to the exclude list so it isnt filtered out. unforunately for VB, searching for short words is very database intensive.

derrtyboy69

derrtyboy69

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Clouds

Scars Meadows [SMS]

Mo/Me

its things liek axe, or bow, or sword. i know sometimes i just want to look through all of the bows in the sell forum to pick one out for my ranger, but i have to specify too much because i cant just search BOW

kzap

kzap

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

R/Mo

k axe and bow added to the exclude list

Mercury Angel

Mercury Angel

Avatar of Gwen

Join Date: Apr 2005

Wandering my own road.

Very few forums will allow you to search for words with 3 characters or less.
Not sure if it's intended or not, although why it would exist if it weren't is a conundrum, is the wildcard symbol. Tag an * (asterisk) to the word you want to search for.

The last bbs I was on had that tip pop up whenever you tried to search for a 3 letter word.

kzap

kzap

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

R/Mo

the one downside of VBulletin and large forums like this one. Search will kill it, literally. sometimes you even have to offload the search functions to a seperate machine, imagine that a seperate machine for searching a forum? We'll be implementing a recommended Google Search for forums soon with a last resort Forum Search option, or disable Forum Search altogether.

Mercury Angel

Mercury Angel

Avatar of Gwen

Join Date: Apr 2005

Wandering my own road.

Like using the [site:http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/] restriction in Google searches?

Or is that just as bad?

Can't say I've put much thought into how search engines operate, sadly >.<

kzap

kzap

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

R/Mo

no using google is great