The forum search feature - the keyword filter

[Doug Kerr]

The search feature of the forum needs improvement in a number of ways. It appears to suffer from the working of various defaults in the forum software package.

One of the most irritating is that if I do a search on, for example, "MTF" , I get this result:

Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.

The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : MTF

That is no doubt why there were no matches.

I guess that "MTF" fails as "too short".

"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" fails as well. Too common, perhaps.

On another front, there is no hint given as to how to use a multi-phrase as the search key, or how to AND or OR individual search terms. (Maybe I'm just missing some of the help.)

The OPF archive is a wondrous resource. Users do not have the tools they need to exploit it.

Best regards,

Doug

[Jerome Marot]

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious fails because it is too long.

May I point out that google advanced search will search any given site and has the operators you appear to need?

Here all the posts from opf including the word "MTF".

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Jerome,

Originally Posted by Jerome Marot

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious fails because it is too long.

May I point out that google advanced search will search any given site and has the operators you appear to need?p

I didn't know that I could have Google look at a particular site. That's neat.

Thanks.

Best regards,

Doug