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  30th September 2021, 12:09 PM
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Specifically, is there a hidden way to search for threads for artists whose names are less than 4 characters? For example, I am not able to search BuzzJack for artists like Sia, RAY BLK, Pia Mia, BTS, ATB and others. Also, some words seem to be considered too vague when entered into a search bar, such as “About”, “Everything”, “Beyond” and plenty of other examples of times when I’ve tried to find something specific containing one of those keywords.
What if such times exceptions are made to only search thread titles for words less than 4 letters so as to limit the results from posts instead? There must be a way to search for such terms on here. 
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30th September 2021, 03:02 PM
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Because of the way the search works, returning all topics with instances of words searched, allowing shorter words would very likely make results unwieldy. And yes, I imagine because this is the way it works, certain common words are disallowed because they would be more of a hindrance than a help in finding what you want.
That's not to say it can't be done, I can see the setting in the Admin CP, but I would prefer to check with Phil in order to make such a change - it's already not a particularly fast search unless you're searching for a specific, unusual word. |
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30th September 2021, 03:50 PM
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Perhaps there’s a setting to show specific results based only on the exact search term entered. So for example, searching the keyword “cat” would not return results with “cats”, “catapult”, “scatter” and the like, but only titles containing the exact phrase searched, if under 4 characters long.
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30th September 2021, 04:51 PM
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I'm pretty sure that is the way it works already.
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1st October 2021, 08:19 AM
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I always find it best to search through Google via the "site:" feature.
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1st October 2021, 11:44 PM
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QUOTE(Dobbo. @ Oct 1 2021, 09:19 AM)  I always find it best to search through Google via the "site:" feature. How do you do this Dobbo? I’d like to try it out. |
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2nd October 2021, 12:30 AM
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Just put "site:buzzjack.com" in front of whatever you want to search for. It still isn't perfect but it is sometimes better than BuzzJack's own search function.
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