Forum Feedback Enabling 3 letter word search and Binary search

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superczar

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Wondering if it is possible to enable

A) 3 letter word searches...e.g. searching "PSP" or "AMD" results in an error

B) Binary Searches e.g. "Router AND modem" or "CPU OR processor"

Without these, the search functions feels really crippled :(
 
superczar said:
Wondering if it is possible to enable
A) 3 letter word searches...e.g. searching "PSP" or "AMD" results in an error

B) Binary Searches e.g. "Router AND modem" or "CPU OR processor"

Without these, the search functions feels really crippled :(

very nice point raised superczar. :hap2:
 
sn mentioned that 3 letter searches causes too much load on the server or such and hence is better left unenabled ..
 
Yeah, I remember that, I started it. But it was a long time ago, and since then the site was upgraded and then downgraded and upgraded and I have no idea what else.
 
KingKrool said:
Yeah, I remember that, I started it. But it was a long time ago, and since then the site was upgraded and then downgraded and upgraded and I have no idea what else.

now common when was it downgraded :D

(man thats an insult :lol: )

well if there are some specific keywords this can be done, eg amd, ati, psp but not generally

the binary search srry is too server intensive. use google search from portal instead.
 
Downgraded? Once upon a time TE unleashed upon us a bunch of fancy new features - nickels that actually had a use, a store, some VBSEO features I think etc. Then it was all removed due to excessive server utilisation. THAT my friend, was a downgrade don't you think? I know at the time you said that we got some new VB features, but I don't really know.
 
well i guess lots of things you see are upgrades and the only thing we ever downgraded was nickel store. can't call removal of that a downgrade. think of the 10 other upgrades ;)

and btw no vbseo feature has ever been downgraded. we are the only board that actually uses most of the "bleeding edge" features as i have to being the the release team of vbseo :)

eg we tested the ping feature before anyone even got hold of it.
 
superczar said:
Wondering if it is possible to enable
A) 3 letter word searches...e.g. searching "PSP" or "AMD" results in an error

B) Binary Searches e.g. "Router AND modem" or "CPU OR processor"

Without these, the search functions feels really crippled :(

Thanks for raising the point , even I had trouble searching for APC UPS, hope there's a solution.
 
Ok, lets do one thing then, you guys can contribute in making a list of essential three letter words you would like to search for or you think are essential for making your TE experience more enjoyable.

List of Essential 3 letter words you would like to see on TE :

  1. AMD
  2. PS2
  3. ATI
  4. PSP
  5. WII
  6. LAN
  7. USB
  8. UPS
  9. AGP
  10. NIC
  11. PCI

Now just keep submitting 3 letter words you need & i would append these in first post.

And maybe we would incorporate them in search ;)
 
APC UPS ... will post more when I remember it.

IRC

GSM

NIC

TCP SP2 patch

LAN

USB

AGP

PCI

GSM

NIC

MSI

DFI

BFG

SP1

SP2

AES

ASP

ATL

APM

DSL

AIX

FTP

API

ATA

ATX

AVI

B2B

B2C

BCC

BTX

C++

C#

CAD

CC

CAS

CDR

CGI

CRC

CRT

CSS

CRM

DDR

DMZ

DES

DVD

DMA

DAO

DNS

EAX

ERP

XML

PS2

PS3

GNU

GPL

GTK

Php

P2p

Pop

Pes

Ps1, Ps2, Ps3, Psp....

all these from the old thread :P
 
^ Good one Nikhil, but please restrict it to only essential keywords not everything under the sun. :hap5:

Just sort out the list a bit ;)
 
About binary search :

This is not possible at the moment, if there is any change in our policy we would inform you. In the meantime feel free to use the google search from portal as SN has mentioned.

About 3 letter words :

We would be able to add only upto TEN essential 3 letter words.

Would provide more info & details on the same by this weekend, until then, closing the thread.
 
We've allowed the following 3 letter words to be indexed from now on. Please be patient as it will take some time to index the following words before the results show up in searches.

PHP ; CSS ; P2P ; ATI ;
SQL ; CPU ; PSP ; AMD ;
LAN ; PS3 ; PS2 ; SP2 ;
USB ; SP1 ; DFI ; MSI ;
PCI ; GSM ; AGP ; HDD ;
 
This was quite a nuisance today, as I couldn't search for n73 and n80 :P Hence I missed most of the earlier posts. I even missed icefusion's review of the n73!
 
adding 3 letter words isnt much use guys, i mean every new thing that comes out has a three letter abbreviation

exclusion of commonly used words seems better
here is a list

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Searching 3 letter keywords is an server intensive process, so we can't enable for it all the keywords. At max we could append about 20 keywords - check post no: 16 for keywords enabled.

One alternative way for you guys is performing site specific searches using Google.

For ex. For the query n73 use -

n73 site:techenclave.com

n80 site:techenclave.com

So basically the format is 'Your Query' + 'site:techenclave.com' in the google search box.
 
is it possible then to use google search in TE toolbar???

Eg: i have the TE toolbar enabled. whenever i need to search for n80 i can use that search box provided along with TE toolbar to search TE!

possible????
 
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