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when I used the search engine (built in forum search), and search for simple things like "3g" or AT&T in the polaris forum, it comes up "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms." the fields are wide open.
What I am doing wrong?

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"how to search" tips...

i am actually looking for some searching tips rather than giving out some.
sometimes i find it more useful to search for a post using a search engine like google and costrain the search to the developers website rather than look through the search engine here in the forum.google return the search with a list sometimes in a total different order than the Site search engine.
this forum is growing every day of uncountable numbers of posts and for people that are just starting off learning what this forum has to offer it is a bit frustrating and difficult to understand where to start.
are my searching skills extremely poor or there is a secret out there than i am unaware of? :shock:
the most important one I think is to choose Search for all terms
Why cant this be the default when searching for more than one word?

Forum search problem?

Hello!
In the past few days (might be since the new forum is online, haven't been here for a while), the search function is acting strangely. For example, do a search for "ssa". It doesn't return anything, but I knew it was mentioned in at least one thread - and there it is, on page 9 of this thread. "Search this thread" doesn't find it either.
Is there some known problem with the forum? I would have searched, but...
Oh, and, erm, another nice one: search for "xda" and see a friendly message saying "Sorry - no matches"...
Search function doesn't work for words less than four letters long.
Try Googling with xda-developers as one of the search criteria. Also try Google's advanced search option; it has a Field for searching only a particular website. Just enter forum.xda-developers.com and go....
Also, don't forget that with Google you can search for posts by a particular user by including the user name as one of the search words.
Hope that helps.
I've been using:
site:forum.xda-developers.com search query
in google.. however the inbuilt vbb has some nice features. If the server can hack it, can we set the min length to 3 and rebuild the index please?
partly covered
please note that the search dialog box (after "New Posts" is clicked) is partly covered by the advertisement.
Hello,
I don't know how to set up mms service for my mini s with wm6.
I can't search for mms or wm6 or anything else.
You should disable search in your forums completely, it's not worth it with this restrictions.
It's the first time xda-developers were not able to help me, just because stupid admins are EVEN NOT ABLE LET THE USER BE WARNED that 3-letter-searching is not working!!! THAT'S HALF A YEAR NOW! ARE YOU DEAD???

request to forum mods

Hello there,
i've a request, or suggestion:
could you separate all the "NEW COOK, NEW MOD, NEW ROM" and all that kind of posts into a separate new forum called something like "artemis kitchen"?
because when it comes to use the search function, for example for "sms notification" 95% of the results are that kind of posts, which aren't talking about the problem I search, but just listing their features.
it's like searching technic information on google and getting as result the amazon.com webpage selling books which listed their index there.
if we could separate this posts somewhere else, users could filter their search option to exlude that forums from their search, thus getting much more accurate search results.
cheers
hmmm...
bump?

Why won't the search work on this site?

I've just been reading a thread in this forum titled 'Car kit issues with WM6' I read it and decided to do a search for similar threads by using the 'search this forum' text box. I typed in "car kit" (without the inverted commas) and it returned no results even though a thread exists with my search query in its title. I also tried the advanced search and selected 'search titles only' to no avail.
No wonder noobs get shot down in flames or am i missing something???
I'm only guessing, but it may just ignore search terms with 3 letter words or less. Many forums do this to stop the inevitable lag and problems when someone searches for "a" in an attempt to slow the forum down, which it does.
There are many people out there who run meaningless searches on forums to eat bandwidth or grind it to a halt, this is one of many methods to stop it.
I've got the admin's attention on this problem. Thanks.
Meanwhile, if you want to do a search, you can try using google and use the 'site:' feature. Example, if you want to search 'car kit', type this
"car kit" site:xda-developers.com
UPDATE:
It seems that it is known that the site can't do search on 4 letters or less words. Use one of these
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=304582

3 letter word search

I know this has been covered before and the answer was to use Google search. The problem I have with the solution is that it is overly broad.
If I want to search a particular forum only for a 3-letter word, is there a way to do it? For example, how do I search for the term, 'GPS' only in the Kaiser ROM development forum?
If I enter 'Kaiser' and 'GPS', I get all sorts of results that I don't want.
Also, may I suggest that if a user enters a search term with only 3 characters, the forum presents a message why it will not search, rather than the generic 'no reuslts found'?
Thanks.

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