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Posted by: Mark Henry May 28 2006, 03:14 PM

I punched in "pilot fog lights"...this alone should get me a least a couple of dozen hits.
All I ever get is error messages or a best a couple of crap results.

Posted by: cbenitah May 28 2006, 03:21 PM

add AND between the words

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act=Search&CODE=show&searchid=2fdacc59e0911d0c96951180fd5cba2c&search_in=posts&result_type=topics&highlite=pilot+and+fog+and+lights

Posted by: Dr Evil May 28 2006, 03:25 PM

Ya, I don't speak "search" either.

Posted by: 736conver May 28 2006, 04:30 PM

Or you could be more general in the search. Just put in "pilot" Not everyone will use the exact words you use, so I find the general the better.

Posted by: lapuwali May 28 2006, 04:43 PM

The phrase typed into the search box has to match exactly: "pilot fog lights" must appear exactly that way for it to be found. It won't match "pilot fogs" or "pilot lights" or even "pilots".

Using AND "pilot AND lights" will match any post that has the word "pilot" and the word "lights" in it anywhere in it, not just the phrase "pilot lights". Doing so gave me several pages of results, many of them relevant. It even found this very thread.

This is different from, say, Google, which will automatically match plural works (pilot and pilots will match if you enter pilot), and it automatically "ANDs" words together. You have to explicitly say "pilot fog lights" in Google to match that exact phrase.

Unfortunately, unlike some sites, you can't point Google directly at 914world.com: 914world.com: pilot fog lights. This will give you only Classic threads (and probably not even all of those), not regular threads on the site. There's talk of fixing this on the site to Google can crawl the whole site, but it won't work right now.

Posted by: davep May 28 2006, 05:05 PM

That is a little too restrictive. Try 'pilot fog' or just pilot

Posted by: Dr Evil May 28 2006, 07:27 PM

What happend to my other reply to this thread?

Posted by: McMark May 28 2006, 09:12 PM

Mark, you need to search for "pilot AND fog AND lights" otherwise it looks for the EXACT phrase "pilot fog lights".

Stupid, but I'm not going to reprogram it.

Posted by: Gint May 28 2006, 09:48 PM

QUOTE(Dr Evil @ May 28 2006, 07:27 PM)

What happend to my other reply to this thread?

It's in the duplicate thread that Mark posted (probably).

And I agree completely with McMark.

Posted by: Gint May 28 2006, 09:52 PM

QUOTE(lapuwali @ May 28 2006, 04:43 PM)

The phrase typed into the search box has to match exactly: "pilot fog lights" must appear exactly that way for it to be found. It won't match "pilot fogs" or "pilot lights" or even "pilots".

Using AND "pilot AND lights" will match any post that has the word "pilot" and the word "lights" in it anywhere in it, not just the phrase "pilot lights". Doing so gave me several pages of results, many of them relevant. It even found this very thread.

This is different from, say, Google, which will automatically match plural works (pilot and pilots will match if you enter pilot), and it automatically "ANDs" words together. You have to explicitly say "pilot fog lights" in Google to match that exact phrase.

Unfortunately, unlike some sites, you can't point Google directly at 914world.com: 914world.com: pilot fog lights. This will give you only Classic threads (and probably not even all of those), not regular threads on the site. There's talk of fixing this on the site to Google can crawl the whole site, but it won't work right now.

Thanks James.

It is different than most search engnes, but it's really quite simple and works very well with a little effort.

Posted by: McMark May 28 2006, 10:04 PM

I merged the two threads.

Admin Powers...ACTIVATE! :superherosmiley:

Posted by: Dr Evil May 28 2006, 10:06 PM

Playin tricks on me

Posted by: Gint May 28 2006, 10:09 PM

QUOTE(McMark @ May 28 2006, 10:04 PM)