Search keywords too short

[Theater of My Mind]

Seems like I'm always getting "the search could not be completed because the search keywords were too short, too long, or too common" error on this site.

It's a problem here because you can't search for terms like WLS, KNX, NPR, PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, CBC, BBC, MTV, CNN, The CW, BIN, MLB, NHL, NBA, PBP, NAB, EAS, DX, AI or FCC, even in combination with other words.

Phrases like Alt 92.3 or Tik Tok are invalid even if you put "Tik Tok" as a phrase in quotes, although you can find a few threads where people typed it without the space.

Is this a hard limitation of the discussion board software or can it be reconfigured?

Any tips on searching for phrases containing short words since putting them in quotes doesn't seem to work?

 

[kwthom]

I believe this is a software limitation, as other fora I visit that use Xenforo also have this same limitation.

Now, unsure if this is a configuration that can be changed in the administration functions or not

 

[Mark Roberts]

Seems like I'm always getting "the search could not be completed because the search keywords were too short, too long, or too common" error on this site.

It's a problem here because you can't search for terms like WLS, KNX, NPR, PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, CBC, BBC, MTV, CNN, The CW, BIN, MLB, NHL, NBA, PBP, NAB, EAS, DX, AI or FCC, even in combination with other words.

I have no particular insight into the software used to run the board, but as a general principle, if your search term isn't specific enough, causing it to return too many results, some software will either have problems with that or will assume that you don't want to sift through that many terms and will flag a warning message. Are you using the advanced search function - e.g. to restrict results by date range and/or by author?

Also note that there's always a tradeoff between recall (getting everything you want even if you get things you don't want in the process) and precision (getting only relevant results even if it means not getting all the results you want).

 

[CTListener]

As a participant in the Song Name Game, I'm constantly frustrated by the search feature's inability to detect precise song titles. Has "He's Got You" (Patsy Cline) been used? Searching for the title, in quotation marks, produces the "words too short" response. Ahem! There's only one well-known song called "He's Got You" and I doubt that phrase has come up in any other context on any forum. So it's a search request that should produce only a few results, yet the dumb algorithm won't let me perform it.

 

[bmasters1981]

As a participant in the Song Name Game, I'm constantly frustrated by the search feature's inability to detect precise song titles. Has "He's Got You" (Patsy Cline) been used? Searching for the title, in quotation marks, produces the "words too short" response. Ahem! There's only one well-known song called "He's Got You" and I doubt that phrase has come up in any other context on any forum. So it's a search request that should produce only a few results, yet the dumb algorithm won't let me perform it.

Thereby having to make you search laboriously through every single post on every single forum.

 

[PTBoardOp93]

The good news is that this site is well indexed by Google, or Bing (if that's your preference)

site:radiodiscussions.com "She's Got You" - Google Search

In general, the built in search in message boards doesn't support quoted phrases, so "He's got you" would never work. But the site: keyword on Google or Bing will let you get the info you want.

 

[Oldie919]

Not trying to nit-pick....but I believe the Patsy Cline song is "SHE'S Got You"....That MIGHT make a difference in your search results.....
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