The forum search needs calibration.

I typed in "post a pic of yourself" (because there is yet another one that's shown up and I wanted to use pics from the previous one...which I can't find) and it gave me this.."You must enter 2 characters or more"Even on the advanced search I can't find it....if this happens to me while searching for a topic we have a few of..what hope do new users have so they don't make clone topics?Any advice here?

Your reading comprehension requires calibration.

forum searchEach word must be at least two characters long.

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Is there any way to get rid of each word must be two letters?

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Get rid of the words that are less than two letters.

Replying to #4

No.
I mean the function so that you can type in one letter words.

Replying to #5

No there is not as far as I know.

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1634how bout that mod?but seriosly it's unnecessary

Mod is not compatible with our search mod. We do not use standard search.

johnx · #5I mean the function so that you can type in one letter words.

There is no point in this. There are no good search words less than 3 characters. I, to, no, do etc are not good search terms so no point in allowing them.

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Could you make it that so you can put in any number
Because you can't put in 1 2 3 4 4 5 6 7 8 or 9

Seph · #2Your reading comprehension requires calibration.

So that means "A" is invalid?I also tried the "match exact" option and I was expecting for it to find an exact thread name...This is not easy enough for morons like myself to use (I know what I am thank you very much :) )So I'd have to type..."post picture yourself"And it'd work better?...Can't we set it or have it to search an exact phrase-I can live with finding things that I type exact (since I found many results) since some topics I know the name...it's just pushed back way to far to find be page flipping.

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that would mean setting up individual permissions for you. Not possible in SMF sorry

Why not better yet use the best search system ever created? Google?Just put "post a pic of yourself site:romulation.net" and check out the results for yourself. It definitely beats anything SMF can offer.

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TADAHHHHHHH...Raysie to the rescueeeeeeeeeeee

sexywogboy · #12Why not better yet use the best search system ever created? Google?Just put "post a pic of yourself site:romulation.net" and check out the results for yourself. It definitely beats anything SMF can offer.

I still prefer altavista from long ago..even if no longer updated...

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But it did indeed work-Looks like I'll be ignoring that annoying bar once more :PSorry to pester as always romU staff, what happens now is your choice (lock or leave-your choice-I'm not fussed)

sexywogboy · #12Why not better yet use the best search system ever created? Google?Just put "post a pic of yourself site:romulation.net" and check out the results for yourself. It definitely beats anything SMF can offer.

Actually the forum search IS better, Google does not have all topics indexed. The forum search is based on Sphinx which is the same thing the main site search is based on and it's a lot more scalable and a lot more accurate than the default SMF search.

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But I found the topics I was looking for via google strangely.I tried the way I thought was advised (and removed all wording of less than 2 letters) and found only the newest topic-thanks to google I found rock91's v2 of the thread (but it seems v1 was deleted...possibly by the topic starter who is an ex mod now).It seems to be alot friendlier to use google it seems, though it may lack full into...it beats typing in just "pokemon" and wading thru all the drudge along the way.

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the OLD ones....but if you search for newer topics, then most likely you won't find them with google because they are probably not indexed yet as seph stated. Who knows when the bots will scoop up the newer topics. Use google or the OLD topics and the search or the NEW topics

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I was looking for the older topics-I don't really want to search for topics that are right there.Seeing soo many duplicate topics, I want to find the older threads, the newer ones I see anyway without searching at all.