Search function on this site?

[timg11]

I came to debug my Wake On LAN (WOL) problem.

I entered "WOL" as a search term and get

Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.

I enter the query "WOL site:forums.sagetv.com" into Google Search and get 10 pages of results containing all the threads with the string "WOL" in the title and text of the threads.

I guess Google runs this forum now and wants us to use their search, but if the forum search is not working, why leave it available on the forums pages?

[Opus4]

All that shows is the limits of the forum's search capability vs Google's search engine. It is possible that the forum doesn't even index 3 letter words, but I'm not sure of that.

Andy

[Monedeath]

Originally Posted by Opus4

All that shows is the limits of the forum's search capability vs Google's search engine. It is possible that the forum doesn't even index 3 letter words, but I'm not sure of that.

I'm not aware of any widely used forum software packages out there which will index/search for words shorter than 4 letters. 3 letters or less, and they'll get omitted.

Pretty sure the list of Forum Software titles that do support searching against a 1 to 3 letter pattern(outside of exact phrase) is going to be much shorter than the list of forum software packages that do.