Question about searching

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I am trying to search for 7 in mids but ' 7" ' gets nothing and neither does 7. Any suggestions?

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[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/search.php?searchid=1720792

I tried [7 inch Mids] and got this.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Do you put the brackets around it? It also says

"The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search: 7"

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

nope....just the words...7 inch mids

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

When a term is too short to search for, add enough asteriks after the term to make it a total of 3 characters long.

So instead of 7", it would be 7"*

If you were looking for every post with the letter I, you would search for I**

Problem with 7"* is it won't just find the term ' 7" '....it will pull up any thread that has just a plain ole 7 in it.

And if you search for ' 7** mid ' it will find any thread with a 7 and the term ' mid ' in it.

So the search doesn't provide extremely narrow results....but I suppose it's better than nothing.

 

[administrator]

I realize the current search needs some improvements. In the meantime, you can search the forum with Google, through the search box at the bottom of the page:

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I realize the current search needs some improvements. In the meantime, you can search the forum with Google, through the search box at the bottom of the page:

I didn't see that but what I did was go to yahoo and then "search within the domain or whatever"

Thanks for the tip squeak.

 

[slikrider20 10+ year member]

I realize the current search needs some improvements. In the meantime, you can search the forum with Google, through the search box at the bottom of the page:

Has that always been there? Thats kinda cool i just now noticed it if it has been up for awhile.

 

[dkguitarist 5,000+ posts]

i've noticed it but never bothered to use it. would probly make it alot simpler now. lol.