Anomolies within the search engine

It appears that the search engine in lz ignores words of three characters or less unless the search phrase is put in quotes.

The Mad Hat Man said:

I assume you mean put steering box inside of quotes?

Click to expand...

yes - and select 'search titles only' - try it - it only returns results where the phrase 'steering box' occurs in the title of the thread - not any thread that happens to have the word 'steering' or 'box' somewhere in it

tried it yet ?

you can't deny it gives better results








can you?

this is how i think it SHOULD work

if you put in engine oil it should find and highlight all occurances of those two words, even if they are seperated

if you put in "engine oil" if should find and highlight ONLY where those words appear in THAT order

currently if you search for "engine oil" it highlights every occurance of those words including together and apart

as far as i can tell that's how all other engines work, although i expect Mr Axminster will disagree

and if you search for either "oil" or oil it finds bugger all, which has a simple fix

Sean said:

this is how i think it SHOULD work

if you put in engine oil it should find and highlight all occurances of those two words, even if they are seperated

if you put in "engine oil" if should find and highlight ONLY where those words appear in THAT order

currently if you search for "engine oil" it highlights every occurance of those words including together and apart

as far as i can tell that's how all other engines work, although i expect Mr Axminster will disagree

Click to expand...

ffs - if you go to the advanced search & put the phrase "engine oil" (including the ") in the keywords box & select 'search titles only' it works like you said in red. - it only returns threads the subject of which is engine oil - which shirly is what you want - therefore it works

anyway - time to go home now - got to cook a curry for tonight

burtonboy said:

ffs - if you go to the advanced search & put the phrase "engine oil" (including the ") in the keywords box & select 'search titles only' it works like you said in red. - it only returns threads the subject of which is engine oil - which shirly is what you want - therefore it works

Click to expand...

but but ......... how many people will notice the "advanced" option ? - how many people would faint from trying to figure out the advanced seacrh options ?

it should find strings of words (including 3 letter ones) from the simple search box

i thought the idea was to make search work so that peeps dont keep asking the same questions, and i suspect the fact that they do keep asking shows that most peeps dont go do the advanced thing

Works the same way the Google search engine works...

Take5 said:

Works the same way the Google search engine works...

Click to expand...

what does ? - the search on here doesnt

Aye, alreet then, it's ****.

Wot d'yer expect from an injun on a Land Rover forum?