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Fix Forum Searchability

Jeffrey Gomez
Cubed™
Join date: 11 Jun 2004
Posts: 3,522
06-06-2005 06:38
Here's a quickie that's rather annoying. Apparently, the forum search tool is configured to "filter out" a lot of common phrases, as well as very small words or acronyms. I'd bet L$100 that vBulletin allows for this to be tweaked.

Some common stuff we cannot use as search text:

- FIC
- IRC
- XML
- There (!)
- BVH

.. and so forth, even if they're included in quotes ("";). Minor annoyance, ludicrously simple fix if vBulletin works properly.

Anyone else have this pet peeve?
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
06-06-2005 11:42
Yeah, Jeska said something awhile back about allowing short words to be added to the database so they CAN be searched. Also:

-sim
-FPS

Oh there's a bunch that aren't coming to mind right now. "Mac" WAS added, however.
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