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RacerX Gullwing
Magic Rabbit
Join date: 18 Jun 2004
Posts: 371
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09-12-2004 20:08
by the way anyone notice Sun's been up now quite a while someone give that sun a push next time thier up there I think the snow simms are starting to melt.
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Tito Gomez
Mi Vida Loca
Join date: 1 Aug 2004
Posts: 921
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09-13-2004 16:40
That is an annoying feature of vBulletin.
Send the good folks at Jelsoft an enhancement request at:
[email]info@vbulletin.com[/email]
tito
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Huns Valen
Don't PM me here.
Join date: 3 May 2003
Posts: 2,749
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09-13-2004 16:51
This is done to save space. Full-text searches are fast because there is a separate index containing every word >=4 characters in every post in the entire forum. If the limit was something like 2 or 3, the size of the index would be quite a bit larger.
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Essence Lumin
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Join date: 24 Oct 2003
Posts: 806
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09-13-2004 18:08
From: someone Originally posted by Huns Valen
This is done to save space. Full-text searches are fast because there is a separate index containing every word >=4 characters in every post in the entire forum. If the limit was something like 2 or 3, the size of the index would be quite a bit larger. That seems like a lame reason to me. I can search for sun on Google. Hard disk space is cheap. And if the reason is for speed that sounds like bad coding to me. |
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Tcoz Bach
Tyrell Victim
Join date: 10 Dec 2002
Posts: 973
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09-13-2004 22:06
The limitation on the search functionality is indeed annoying. You really should be able to search for a three letter prefix and be allowed to search all the forums globally.
For instance, do a search for "rot", a common abbreviation for "rotation", which would also give you any posts with "rot" as part of a function name, or abbreviated version of "rotation" in a post, which is very common. "Rotation" or "Rotate" would return an incomplete result set.
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Azelda Garcia
Azelda Garcia
Join date: 3 Nov 2003
Posts: 819
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09-13-2004 23:36
Yes, they shouldnt be truncating search space by word length but by usefulness in searches, ie remove prepositions, articles, conjunctions, pronouns, and a couple of common verbs like "to be" and "to have" and leave in everything else.
This is especially true for tech forums which are generally choc-a-bloc full of TLAs, like TCP, ToS, SLA, or shortened forms like, as Tcoz say, rot.
Azelda
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