mikejd1 Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Do you do a neowin search in the communtiy for items 3 letter or less? um, i tried doing a search for GEM and it says its too short, lolol, wtf??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threetonesun Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Get clicking ;) Yeah, it gets me to. I tried doing a search for "Block OS" and it said the word "OS" wasn't long enough...silly thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockz Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 They do the four letter min, because if it went any lower it would slow the site and forums down. The database would be too busy looking for things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikejd1 Posted July 17, 2002 Author Share Posted July 17, 2002 Originally posted by shockz They do the four letter min, because if it went any lower it would slow the site and forums down. The database would be too busy looking for things. So how do I find threads with GEM in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockz Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 try searching for gems or or something similar to that sort, or look under Instant Messenger Themes (assuming your talking about the Instant Messenger theme :)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockz Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 or you could try searching for the authors name too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 according to redmak (i think), the search is actually already done before you peform it. I don't know exactly how it works, but he said that the terms were automatically mapped to certain threads beforehand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockz Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Is this the thread: https://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.ph...3537#post383537 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threetonesun Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Originally posted by codyg11 according to redmak (i think), the search is actually already done before you peform it. I don't know exactly how it works, but he said that the terms were automatically mapped to certain threads beforehand. That would be so un-"Neowin" like. I mean, that's how really bum web pages make their searches. Maybe it's because of the way the Board is set up... Or else they have those things from minority report sitting around, knowing exactly what you're going to search for before you even start searching... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunkenMaster Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Yeah, there are alternate ways of finding those articles. It would be nice to search the more popular 3-letter acronyms in the search engine. Example: SPx Service pack ATI RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypercube Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 Its the was the forum is indexed to save time and processor load :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keldyn Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 Moved to Site & Forum Issues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalDJ Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 yeh i had problems with that 3 word thing..getes quite annoying when the word is 3 letters long and u cant search for it!! :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris123NT Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 yeah that 4 letter limit is kinda gay. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad Posted July 18, 2002 Share Posted July 18, 2002 Yup, I agree, the 4 letter minimum on searches essentially castrates the search engine. I can certainly sympathize with neowin for not doing it that way, however. It would be nice if you could add "special case" three letter words like DrunkenMaster suggested (ie, RAM, CPU, ATI, OS, XP, etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aco Veteran Posted July 18, 2002 Veteran Share Posted July 18, 2002 If the minimum search limit was reduced, the maximum would have to reduced aswell to keep the search DB size low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmak Administrators Posted July 18, 2002 Administrators Share Posted July 18, 2002 If you want to search for 3 letter words use wildcards Like ati* , cpu* , amd* There are some limits installed because searches are heavy on the server. There are so many 3 letter words therefore we have a 4 letter limit. We also have a 30 sec flood check so you can't search more than once in 30 secs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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