Mods to "Search" needed

[rScotty]

The default on the search algorithm is set too short. Please modify it.
When I try to search any forum using my tractor's model which is an M59, I get the following message:

The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : M59

thanks, rScotty

 

[phaser]

Try this. Click the link than enter your search term at the end of forums:

Like this: siterangetractortalks.com/forums: m59
(I don't know why that smiley is showing)

Be sure and leave a space between the forums: and your search term like above.

https://www.google.com/#q=site:orangetractortalks.com/forums:&undefined=undefined

Any word(s) can be used to search the forums.

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[Mr. K]

Hey rScotty -

The reason the system prevents smaller search terms (3 characters or less) is because it puts a lot of strain on the server to search for small worlds like that. For example, someone could search for "the" and the search results would be nearly every post/thread ever created. The site might crash or at the very least, service would be degraded until the search was complete.

phaser has the right idea - you can leverage Google's much bigger hardware to do some of the heavy lifting. It's possible to filter your search to just a specific site, in this case, orangetractortalks.com.

So in short - we cannot relax this constraint without putting the site's performance at risk but there is a workaround.

 

[olthumpa]

**M59**

Will also work using the site search.

 

[phaser]

**M59**

Will also work using the site search.

That will work, but I only got 7 hits using **M59**

Using the Google site search got 113 hits using just M59

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[Eric McCarthy]

Sometimes I go to Google and ask like a specific question to get an answer. So maybe try "How do I repair xxx on a Kubota M59"

 

[rScotty]

Hey rScotty -

The reason the system prevents smaller search terms (3 characters or less) is because it puts a lot of strain on the server to search for small worlds like that. For example, someone could search for "the" and the search results would be nearly every post/thread ever created. The site might crash or at the very least, service would be degraded until the search was complete.

phaser has the right idea - you can leverage Google's much bigger hardware to do some of the heavy lifting. It's possible to filter your search to just a specific site, in this case, orangetractortalks.com.

So in short - we cannot relax this constraint without putting the site's performance at risk but there is a workaround.

Yes, Phaser has the right idea, but his method doesn't seem to work either. What is the limit on search characters? Any more suggestions? The shot search term limitation you mention doesn't seem to be a problem with other sites. What are they doing differently?

 

[PoTreeBoy]

Yes, Phaser has the right idea, but his method doesn't seem to work either. What is the limit on search characters? Any more suggestions? The shot search term limitation you mention doesn't seem to be a problem with other sites. What are they doing differently?

I've done what I think Phaser is saying.
In Google (not sure if this works with other search engines), type "M59 site:www.orangetractortalks.com". It's a little clunky, but it gets the job done.