short search terms not accepted?

[cybernorris]

Ok, I understand the desire to keep down frivolous searches, but for me to not be able to search .380 or BDA (as in Browning BDA .380) can be a problem. Please consider allowing these as search terms.

[Guest colombianito1021]

i second this! i tried doing some searches last night and it would not let me.

[TGO David]

I can add exceptions for things like common calibers. What other terms would it not let you search?

[Guest colombianito1021]

I tried searching FN Five-Seven last night. Would not search any of the words.

[TGO David]

Try including those terms in quotes. Search for

"FN Five-Seven" or just "Five-Seven"

If you don't enclose that string in quotes, the search engine sees the hyphen as being a minus sign and is searching for posts with the word FIVE but not the word SEVEN included within.

[9teeneleven]

PSL, USP, UZI, 9mm, SVD, SVT, NRA

[TGO David]

Another trick is to add an asterisk at the end of whatever short word you're searching for. USP becomes USP* and so forth.

[G27]

Why not just set the Search Index Minimum Word Length to something like '2'? Sure, the database will be larger, but for a forum like this it would make sense...

Edited May 19, 2009 by crimsonaudio

[cybernorris]

See if you can get the admin(s) at thehighroad.org to share their search secrets. I was able to do "browning bda 380" and not get results regarding shotguns, hi-power, etc.

[TGO David]

See if you can get the admin(s) at thehighroad.org to share their search secrets. I was able to do "browning bda 380" and not get results regarding shotguns, hi-power, etc.

They are using the same software we are with the same search engine.