query on search function

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Originally Posted by watson

Here's your thread Wongo

https://www.woodworkforums.com/showth...532#post303532

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Thanks Watson. I did find it eventually. How did you find it?

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Originally Posted by wongo

thanks watson. I did find it eventually. How did you find it?

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ooooohhhhhmmmmmm!

It ain't only a boolean problem. Try just searching for ELU and see how many hits you get

Cheers
Michael

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Originally Posted by Big Shed

As has been said, using Google Search for 3 letter words, or indeed any tricky search, is a better option.

You can either type in site:woodworkforums.com or go to Advanced Google Search, which will give you this option as well as some others.

Or, as Carl has said, combine the 3 letter words with another relevant word, such as Elu Router, surrounded by quotes "Elu Router", that way the forum search does an AND search.

There have been several discussions on this in the past (do a search:D)

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Originally Posted by mic-d

It ain't only a boolean problem. Try just searching for ELU and see how many hits you get

Cheers
Michael

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I did, see my screen shot.

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Originally Posted by Big Shed

I did, see my screen shot.

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In google yes, I mean in wwf.

Cheers
Michael

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Originally Posted by steven

Hi there

If I search "box joint" I don't see the above page in the results.

If I search box joint I see the above post in the results. I also get a lot of pages that contain either box or post within them.

I'm pretty sure everything is working as it would be expected.

regards

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Um, I don't understand how that is working as expected.

Cheers
Michael

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Originally Posted by Wongo

Thanks Watson. I did find it eventually. How did you find it?

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Elementary my dear Wongo...

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Originally Posted by mic-d

Um, I don't understand how that is working as expected.

Cheers
Michael

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Because the first returns results that contain box joint

The second should return results that contain either box or joint.

The results returned are quite different.

regards

Btw, by typing your keywords into Google, then adding

site:www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au

at the end, it restricts google to the WWF forums.

OK thanks.

Cheers
Michael

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Originally Posted by mic-d

It ain't only a boolean problem. Try just searching for ELU and see how many hits you get

Cheers
Michael

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Nice pickup, google finds 335 results. I'm not sure why our SE isn't finding results with this query, there are some obvious results containing your query within the post title.

Leave it with me and I'll look into it.

regards

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Originally Posted by steven

Nice pickup, google finds 335 results. I'm not sure why our SE isn't finding results with this query, there are some obvious results containing your query within the post title.

Leave it with me and I'll look into it.

regards

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Thanks Steven:2tsup:

Cheers
Michael

I made a searchplugin for firefox, it may work on other browsers, I think it is opensearch compliant.

Just rename the file as ubueat.xml and save it in your 'searchplugins" directory (most probably 'program files/mozilla firefox/searchplugins'.
Then restart firefox.

Trying to search for Wouldwood's thread on his chair, but I can't find it :doh: Searching under advanced search with chair as the search word and Wouldwood for posts by him and I draw a blank. :doh:

Help. :U

It's out there, but I can't find it.

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Originally Posted by Waldo

Trying to search for Wouldwood's thread on his chair, but I can't find it :doh: Searching under advanced search with chair as the search word and Wouldwood for posts by him and I draw a blank. :doh:

Help. :U

It's out there, but I can't find it.

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His name is wrong ya wally :doh: :D:D:D

Try this in google:

"woodwould chair site:www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au"