I went to a Harry Potter Movie 5 screening yest, and was going to start a thread in OMNI. But before doing so I decided to search to see if anyone else had started one. Search term: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Error message was that I have to have at least 4 words to do a search, so no joy. My search term had 4 words (even if you take out the and, the, of), so what's up w/ that?

I've had it happen a few times in the last week on OMNI, and in each case it was more than 4 words.

Is it a glitch, or am I doing something wrong?

Cheers.

Try searching with "Harry Potter Order Phoenix"

Thanks for helping with this Scott. SkiAdcock, you should just use words of 4 or more letters as your see with Scotts example. Thank you,

Thanks guys! Cheers.

PS - You can go to the thread now started in OMNI if you want a sneak preview on my thoughts/opinions after seeing the movie last Sat It opens this Wednesday.

Ok, so how do I do this search? I'm in the Marriott forum & want to find out info re: the Residence Inn San Diego. So being a good FTer I decide to search to see if there are any threads re: it before posting my questions (ie, what's it like).

So I put in the search section "Residence Inn San Diego" and get this as a response...

The search term you specified (Inn) is under the minimum word length (4) and therefore will not be found. Please make this term longer.
If this term contains a wildcard, please make this term more specific.

By following exactly the same protocol - merely omit the two words with fewer than four letters. A seach for "Residence Diego" (without the quotes) in the Marriott forum yields 24 threads, among them:
Marriott-family hotels in the San Diego area
Residence Inn - San Diego (Kearny Mesa Rd)
Residence Inn Downtown San Diego

You can also search for:

"Residence Inn San Diego"

or:

"Residence Inn" "San Diego"

In both cases include the quotes.

Uh Tim, if you saw what I posted above I DID post "Residence Inn San Diego" (and yes I included the quotes), and I got the error code which prompted me to post in this thread.

Wingnut - if I post Residence San Diego I could get someone's home. And are we saying no one can EVER do a post re: Residence Inn in ANY city?

Guess what - Residence Inn plus xx is a valid search, even if this engine has a problem w/ it - fix the search engine. I'd get it if it was ONLY "Inn", but it's not. It's Inn + qualifying info. Geesh. BTW - not to digress, but Hampton Inn could face same problems.

Granted I'm not techie, but I think the search engine should be able to figure out Residence Inn San Diego. Heck after the "" stuff, I even did Residence+Inn+San+Diego hoping that would help. And every other combo I could think of.

And wingnut, using your examples above there should have been no reason you came up w/ the search & I didn't - the "inn" existed in every search (even w/o quotes, & then + then fill in the blank - i tried several before posting here, so as not to seem like a nimrod).

Geesh.

BTW - not to point out the obvious but Residence Inn San Diego is not under the WORD length (4), but might be underneath a word length in terms of word characters (ie, the sole word that's 3 characters). I just did a word count under Word & RISD counts as 4 words.

Cheers.

Try it again, if you include the quotes you should not get the error you are describing (I don't, but do get results when searching on all forums). Thanks,

Thanks guys. Finally got it to work. And after all that no reports on the property, so will actually have to create a new thread LOL...

Cheers.