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TurboGLH
06-14-2006, 05:25 PM
The search is limited to more than three characters. I can see why that is, but it makes it a pain to search for transmissions as most people just list them as 555,568,413 etc. Any chance we can get the limit lowered on just the exchange section of the board?

Frank
06-14-2006, 05:28 PM
I can add special words that will be included in the search for future posts only. Making the forums indexed for 3 letter words triples the size of the database and kills performance.

The immediate option is to *555 or *555*, etc. Let me know how that works.


Frank

TurboGLH
06-14-2006, 05:37 PM
I figured as much on expanding the search to the whole board. I don't know why I didn't think of using wildcards though, thanks Frank.

BadAssPerformance
06-15-2006, 01:39 AM
Mad props for the '*'

Whorse
06-15-2006, 08:19 AM
trying to look for camshafts is hard because most people just write 'cam'.

BadAssPerformance
06-15-2006, 08:23 AM
true, and when you use the almighty '*' then you get cam*era, etc... cam searches (and others) are best with multiple workds (e.g. cam* timing) or using the advanced search options.