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Old Nov 27, 2005 | 04:04 AM
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Darren,

seems there are no results when I search. verified all params in form ok, search term was 'xb' - no results.

any ideas what's up?

firefox 1.0.7
Old Nov 27, 2005 | 05:12 AM
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definitely not a browser issue, tested with IE.

still getting no results in search.

thanks, btw, for keeping this site up!
Old Nov 27, 2005 | 05:24 AM
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Weird. I have Firefox 1.0.7 as well. and have had no issues like this, and I use the search like no other. Can you elaborate on the search parameters? Have you logged out and back in? That seems to fix a lot of the problems.
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I wonder if it won't search on any word shorter than four characters. Try testing that idea.
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Originally Posted by scionlife
I wonder if it won't search on any word shorter than four characters. Try testing that idea.
I have that problem. Is that specific to Firefox?
Old Nov 27, 2005 | 08:45 AM
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Hmmmmmm... If the search engine drops short terms, that might very well explain some of the very odd results I sometimes get...
Old Nov 27, 2005 | 12:41 PM
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the search engine will not use a two letter term to search.

the searching term must be three or more letters.


does not matter what browser, it is a php thing.
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Hmmm.. I tried a three letter word "act" and it worked, but xB did not. Must be built into phpbb that only 3+ letters will pull results.
Old Nov 28, 2005 | 08:50 AM
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well, I appreciate that you looked into it for me, and I am glad to know that two-chars are stopwords.

I actually think there was *something* going on, becasue my original search was for a phrase. I kept narrowing it down, hoping to get results, and finally tried xb as a default before I mentioned the issue.

Thanks again for the site D
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