search feature - small words? not working
Jun 17, 2004 | 12:39 pm
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Originally Posted by ajinlondon
i assumed it was discussed here but cant find it.
is it just me or can you only search for words larger than 4 characters..
is it just me or can you only search for words larger than 4 characters..
There are certain three-letter words, though, that are common enough that the system ignores them for search words. Words like "and", "the", etc.
What terms, and in what forums, are you doing your search on?
Jun 24, 2004 | 1:16 pm
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Originally Posted by ajinlondon
MAA - doesn't search in the star forum.. (it's mentioned a few times)
i new i wasn't going mad..
i new i wasn't going mad..
Not knowing which "star forum" you meant, I searched for "MAA" in both the Starwood forum as well as the Star Alliance forum and didn't receive any errors in either. I also didn't receive any matching results, but that doesn't have to do with the length of the search term being too short.
Our search index is incomplete, which may explain why you don't get results back for terms that you know are within a forum, but you shouldn't get any "terms are too small" errors from that.
Aug 4, 2004 | 4:37 pm
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Is there anyway to add some function to add certain small words?
In some search engines, using +, " ", and others would allow search to happen for small/common words.
I tried terms like "1K" = too short, "one way"=too common get rejected as key words in the UA forum. I was looking for "1K one way award trip" as key word but since 3 of the words get rejected, the search engine only look for "award trip." Consequently, the search returned back with more then 500 threads.
Is there any work around?
In some search engines, using +, " ", and others would allow search to happen for small/common words.
I tried terms like "1K" = too short, "one way"=too common get rejected as key words in the UA forum. I was looking for "1K one way award trip" as key word but since 3 of the words get rejected, the search engine only look for "award trip." Consequently, the search returned back with more then 500 threads.
Is there any work around?