Thread search problem

Azaran on 21/4/2012 at 04:23

This has happened to me a few times, where I search for certain words in threads and it says there's no results even though the words occur throughout the thread - the latest example, I did a search for "eye" in (http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138595&page=1) this thread and got no results, despite the fact that that word is there a few dozen times. Anyone else have this problem?

Kolya on 21/4/2012 at 09:16

Likely the index only includes words with >3 letters. The forum search is screwed anyway, you're better off using google with "site:ttlg.com".

Al_B on 21/4/2012 at 10:06

In addition to the three character limit (which I think I've encountered myself before), there are also some search stop-words, not all of which are obvious, which are excluded from search results.

Kolya on 21/4/2012 at 16:33

(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/fulltext-stopwords.html)

Azaran on 21/4/2012 at 17:28

Thanks guys, I'll start using Google