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914World.com _ 914World Garage _ How to search for "914/6" or "914-6"?
Posted by: smontanaro Jan 4 2011, 02:40 PM
I tried searching the classified forum for both "914/6" and "914-6" but even though there is clearly a /6 for sale in the cars/rollers subforum both searches returned no results. How do you search for 914/6? It's apparently somehow non-trivial. Perhaps it should be added to the search help (where examples of searching for "914" and "blue" appear).
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Posted by: dr914@autoatlanta.com Jan 4 2011, 03:05 PM
should be 914-6
I tried searching the classified forum for both "914/6" and "914-6" but even though there is clearly a /6 for sale in the cars/rollers subforum both searches returned no results. How do you search for 914/6? It's apparently somehow non-trivial. Perhaps it should be added to the search help (where examples of searching for "914" and "blue" appear).
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Posted by: smontanaro Jan 4 2011, 03:12 PM
Thanks for the tip George, though that doesn't work for me. I visited the search page:
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act=Search&f=2
Entered "914-6" (sans quotes) in the search field and selected the Classified forums then poked the Search button. It returned:
Unfortunately your search didn't return any results.
Try broadening the search parameters by searching by different keywords or altering the format of your search.
Remember to use the wildcard '*' to increase the number of matches. Apple* will match 'apple' and 'apples'.
Posted by: flipb Jan 4 2011, 03:27 PM
Entered "914-6" (sans quotes) in the search field and selected the Classified forums then poked the Search button. It returned:
Try it *with* the quotation marks. That way, search treats it as a complete text string. (Not sure if that will work - you can also try searching for the following on google (copy & paste this) site:914world.com "914-6"
Posted by: smontanaro Jan 4 2011, 05:49 PM
Before posting my question I had tried all of the following variants:
914/6
"914/6"
914-6
"914-6"
None of these work for me. (Again, in all cases I selected the Classified forum as the search domain.)
OTOH, Google has no problem searching for "site:914world.com 914/6 classified", it just doesn't realize that the date of the posting is important.
Posted by: computers4kids Jan 4 2011, 08:33 PM
Use the "Custom Google" search engine in my signature. It will only search the World site and you can use any character or combination you want 
Now that the World and Club are friends 
, I should include my search of the club site,
http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=002408345898193228772%3Aajvfxschcgc
Posted by: Cairo94507 Jan 4 2011, 08:44 PM
Just curious if there is a date range problem? Like the adds are beyond your current setting parameter maybe.
I know when I was searching to buy a six I had to change the date range to pull up old adds. Just a thought.
Posted by: McMark Jan 4 2011, 11:02 PM
914*6 works and will find both 914/6 and 914-6.
Posted by: bandjoey Jan 4 2011, 11:08 PM
If you search +914 +muffler U get all items. Could it be the dash or slash deletes all items with a 6 ?
Posted by: smontanaro Jan 8 2011, 09:18 PM
914*6 works and will find both 914/6 and 914-6.
Right, but it finds "914" followed by any number of other characters, followed by "6".
I'll just keep horsing around with Google, Bing and other search engines to see if I can come up with a better search.
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