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Forum Search sucks

Postby tschinz » 16 Apr 2015, 06:29

Hello Guys,

the search in this forum is very bad. When I'm searching for something is mostly tells me that
1. too small words
2. too big words
3. too common words

It's impossible to search for something even you know that there is a post (which you can't find at the moment) solving your problem.

Response when I do a search is mostly the following
The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: hifiberry.
You must specify at least one word to search for. Each word must consist of at least 3 characters and must not contain more than 14 characters excluding wildcards.


Any way to change that restriction??

Thanks tschinz
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Re: Forum Search sucks

Postby ACX » 16 Apr 2015, 10:25

That's the default behaviour of phpBB search. I won't bother to improve that when you can use Google search in the proper way instead of it, for example:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=hi ... eaudio.com
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Re: Forum Search sucks

Postby tschinz » 16 Apr 2015, 11:20

ok understood, that's what I did till now anyway.
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Re: Forum Search sucks

Postby tschinz » 16 Apr 2015, 11:50

Just that you don't have to search in case you want to disable it.

1. Lower the common word threshold to 0% to disable this behaviour
ACP - General - Search settings - common word threshold-setting

2. Clean search index
ACP - Maintenance - Database - Search Index - Delete Index, and then you Create Index

Cheers tschinz
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Re: Forum Search sucks

Postby ACX » 16 Apr 2015, 16:18

tschinz wrote:1. Lower the common word threshold to 0% to disable this behaviour
ACP - General - Search settings - common word threshold-setting

2. Clean search index
ACP - Maintenance - Database - Search Index - Delete Index, and then you Create Index

Thank you for the tip, I've just done both steps. Does it work better now?

BTW, great avatar!
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Re: Forum Search sucks

Postby tschinz » 16 Apr 2015, 20:38

Hi there,

YES thanks, it is very usable now. You can actually search for something ;-)

And this avatar is a much with me since forever. But your's not that bad either ;-)
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