The search function/engine on Hypography is still crap

[Michaelangelica]

This is its latest priceless peccadillo

 

The search term you specified (be) is under the minimum word length (3) and therefore will not be found. Please make this term longer.

 

If this term contains a wildcard, please make this term more specific.

 

So it can't count now either?

 

For a bunch of scientific, techno-computer-junkies how can you can get anything so basic, so wrong?

 

It is incrediblely annoying and frustrating

[InfiniteNow]

Yeah. I noticed that too. It's frustrating beyond all get-out.

 

I'm pretty sure that the search function used to just skip words which were less than three letters, but now we get the error. I'm not sure how easy it is to do in a forum environment, but we could definitely benefit from improved search.

 

Now, one cannot search less than three letter words, one cannot search quotes within a post, one gets a thousand results which have nothing to do with the words searched upon...

 

Tormod and the gang knows. Try to be patient Mike. Time for some herbal tea, mate... or a good round on the exercise bike (you're probably exercising less with the cold weather, and full of angst!) :phones:

 

 

;)

 

 

:phones:

[DougF]

I got this message when I put in "Pics of hypography members" as the search parameters

 

 

 

The search term you specified (of) is under the minimum word length (3) and therefore will not be found. Please make this term longer.

If this term contains a wildcard' date=' please make this term more specific.[/Quote']

 

 

It is aggravating. ;)

[Tormod]

I got this message when I put in "Pics of hypography members" as the search parameters

 

Strange - that works fine for me.

 

But yes, the built in search engine in vBulletin is crap (no need for Michaelangelica to blame us for it - it's a part of this forum system).

 

We have however found an alternative solution but as with everything else it will take TIME to implement because we're all doing this in our free time.

[Michaelangelica]

Search

DDT should it be used

result

vBulletin Message

The search term you specified (it) is under the minimum word length (3) and therefore will not be found. Please make this term longer.

 

If this term contains a wildcard, please make this term more specific.

[Tormod]

We're looking into a search engine replacement this weekend. No promises though!

[alexander]

*pretends to be a dumb blonde* lets install google on the server

 

no, no for real though...

 

first of all, even its not the answer to this particular question this is something that you may want to look at T: vBulletin-Search Engine Optimize vBulletin-top hack

 

i duno, other then using google to search Hypo... i dunno if there are more options available that will provide adequate results...

[Tormod]

Alex, we already use the vBSEO plugin for SEO. But I was thinking about trying out a pretty cool, free search engine which can index our entire site and not just the forums.

 

Oh, and why not just let's buy Google while we're at it. ;)

[alexander]

Oh, and why not just let's buy Google while we're at it.

sweet, can i administer hypotube then? :)

[Tormod]

Alex, didn't you know? We bought Microsoft last week. We're putting you in charge of the Microsoft Works department. :)