Search engine problems

Alicia Michel · 08-23-2007, 12:06 AM

I tried searching for "ill" and the board said I used too few search terms and that the minimum word length is four. So I tried searching for "what you eat ill" and the board said that "you" is under the minimum word length as well.

Ron Wilhelm · 08-24-2007, 10:10 AM

While the search engine has a minimum word length of four as well as certain stopwords ('some', 'just, 'doing', etc.), it does offer phrase and boolean searching and that will find phrases that contain words less than the minimum word length as well as stop words if your phrase contains 'findable words'.

For example, if you enter 'things to eat' without quotes, both to and eat are less than the minimum word length, but is you enter "things to eat" in double quotes, you will get results.

Tim Donahey · 08-28-2007, 07:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ron Wilhelm

For example, if you enter 'things to eat' without quotes, both to and eat are less than the minimum word length, but is you enter "things to eat" in double quotes, you will get results.

The problem with that though is you would only get results of "things to eat" and not "things to not eat."

I just did a search for 'blocks of fat', which returns no results, and "blocks of fat" also returns zero results, when searching titles (I usually just search titles to get specific results). Whereas 'blocks of fat' would return 'fat blocks,' 'how many blocks of fat,' how much in a fat block,' etc, etc, I have to type in every conceivable combination manually.

Other keywords I cannot search:

fit
fat
bar
eat
run
row
jog
age
lap
300 (jk)
GPP
ATG
ATP
WOD
CFT
C&J
GHD
GHR
GTG
H2H
OHS
Rep
Set
SPP
TGU
DIY

and a million others.

Couldn't you just make the limit 2 characters? Pretty please?

Ron Wilhelm · 08-30-2007, 12:43 AM

The search engine has been reconfigured to allow for three letter words like ATG, GTG, OHS. We will keeping an eye on how this affects system performance.

Michael Cooley · 09-11-2007, 09:02 AM

I've been having a similar problem searching for "5/2", i.e., 5 on 2 off training frequency. Any suggestions?

Tim Donahey · 09-11-2007, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ron Wilhelm

The search engine has been reconfigured to allow for three letter words like ATG, GTG, OHS. We will keeping an eye on how this affects system performance.

Sweet! I'd recently notices this; thanks!

Ron Wilhelm · 09-11-2007, 09:28 AM

You're out of luck on that. Neither of the search engine options for vBulletin index numbers. You'll have the use google and add the term 'site:board.crossfit.com'

08-23-2007, 12:06 AM	#1
Alicia Michel Member Profile: Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Washington DC DC Posts: 807	Search engine problems I tried searching for "ill" and the board said I used too few search terms and that the minimum word length is four. So I tried searching for "what you eat ill" and the board said that "you" is under the minimum word length as well.

08-24-2007, 10:10 AM	#2
Ron Wilhelm Member Profile: Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Denver CO Posts: 260	Re: Search engine problems While the search engine has a minimum word length of four as well as certain stopwords ('some', 'just, 'doing', etc.), it does offer phrase and boolean searching and that will find phrases that contain words less than the minimum word length as well as stop words if your phrase contains 'findable words'. For example, if you enter 'things to eat' without quotes, both to and eat are less than the minimum word length, but is you enter "things to eat" in double quotes, you will get results.

08-30-2007, 12:43 AM	#4
Ron Wilhelm Member Profile: Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Denver CO Posts: 260	Re: Search engine problems The search engine has been reconfigured to allow for three letter words like ATG, GTG, OHS. We will keeping an eye on how this affects system performance.

09-11-2007, 09:02 AM	#5
Michael Cooley Member Profile: Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Dallas Texas Posts: 91	Re: Search engine problems I've been having a similar problem searching for "5/2", i.e., 5 on 2 off training frequency. Any suggestions?
	__________________ "Think of Tiger Woods out there hitting a bucket of balls. He's not swinging the 5-iron to get stronger -- he's swinging it to hone the groove. Hone the groove."

09-11-2007, 09:28 AM	#7
Ron Wilhelm Member Profile: Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Denver CO Posts: 260	Re: Search engine problems You're out of luck on that. Neither of the search engine options for vBulletin index numbers. You'll have the use google and add the term 'site:board.crossfit.com'

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