Just wondering if you could shed some light on minimum parameters for conducting a search?
Sometimes I receive "Sorry - no matches" performing a search for words such as "OEM", yet they exist. Usually if the word is too small/too common, I get "The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search" which makes sense, but on occasion, searching seems to yield no results at all.
A perfect example of this is let's say I was trying to locate the thread entitled "17/18 best value" which was started a few months ago and all I can remember is 17/18. I search for that...no results. If all I can remember is best value...no results. If I happened to remember the entire name of the thread 17/18 best value...still no results. Then I restrict searching in advance mode to Titles Only...no results. Then I restrict to just "Show posts"...no results. And if I add quotes to specify an exact match...no results (does this even work?).
Is there a way I can "force" it to search specific terms when I run into this? I've been doing tag searches to work around this which sometimes yields better results but not everyone properly submits tags (including myself) when posting a thread. Thanks.
Sometimes I receive "Sorry - no matches" performing a search for words such as "OEM", yet they exist. Usually if the word is too small/too common, I get "The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search" which makes sense, but on occasion, searching seems to yield no results at all.
A perfect example of this is let's say I was trying to locate the thread entitled "17/18 best value" which was started a few months ago and all I can remember is 17/18. I search for that...no results. If all I can remember is best value...no results. If I happened to remember the entire name of the thread 17/18 best value...still no results. Then I restrict searching in advance mode to Titles Only...no results. Then I restrict to just "Show posts"...no results. And if I add quotes to specify an exact match...no results (does this even work?).
Is there a way I can "force" it to search specific terms when I run into this? I've been doing tag searches to work around this which sometimes yields better results but not everyone properly submits tags (including myself) when posting a thread. Thanks.