How to search on 3 letter words?

[Mr Spock]

I can't be the first to ask this question. How does one search on 3 letter words? HAI, Elk, X10, UPB, CQC. I get nothing. Only longer words seem to retrive anything.

Thanks.

 

[Desert_AIP]

Most board software won't let you search for 3 letter words.
It's particularly frustrating here as you point out.

You have to do something like "HAI controller", "Omni", "UPB light", etc.

 

[Sacarino]

Use Google with this search (obviously you'll want to substitute your own 3 letter acronym): HAI "http://www.cocoontech.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=" site:www.cocoontech.com

 

[Dean Roddey]

I'm a small and sometimes broken search engine on the CQC topic, so feel free to ask if you have any questions on that front. In retrospect it's like naming a band Free Beer or something. I should have named my company Porn Automation or something like that, then everyone would find it all the time.

 

[electron]

It really is a common and annoying limitation. I actually have a fix for this, which was enabled for a while, but had to disable it due to some performance issues. I just upgraded the forum software last weekend, and will try this workaround again later this weekend. The forum software also supports tagging now, so if people would use this feature, I could turn that on as well.

 

[Mr Spock]

Cool. Great feedack on options.

Thanks.

 

[electron]

3 letter search is enabled again (switched to a different internal search engine, so it should be more effective with other searches as well). Let me know if there are any other search issues.

 

[Dean Roddey]

Dan, did you notice that this thread shows zero views in the forum view? Just pointing it out in case it's a glitch you want to look into. It also didn't change when I posted this response, or move to the top of the list.

 

[Dean Roddey]

Oh, I get it. It got moved. That's not as obvious here on this forum as it on others, so I didn't notice it.

 

[electron]

I don't like the icon for 'moved' either on this new layout, something I will have to change.

 

[Mr Spock]

Just tried it. Seems to work good.

 

[Dean Roddey]

Looks like it has stopped working again. Oh, wait, it looks like search isn't working at all, so of course it wouldn't find any three letter words either.

 

[electron]

Back in business. I needed to rebuild the sphinx configuration file since I just upgraded major components. Thanks for letting me know!