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[1eyedjack]

Maybe I am alone but I rather dislike the restriction in the search engine that requires each searched word to contain at least 4 (is it 4?) characters. Not to be able to include (say) 1N or 1NT as a word in the search field I find irritating. No doubt there are good reasons for it, but I remember a time when you could do this, so what has changed?

 

Of course I agree that to have ONLY 1N or 1NT as the search criterea would be absurd. But to deny it altogether as one of several?

[inquiry]

Maybe I am alone but I rather dislike the restriction in the search engine that requires each searched word to contain at least 4 (is it 4?) characters. Not to be able to include (say) 1N or 1NT as a word in the search field I find irritating. No doubt there are good reasons for it, but I remember a time when you could do this, so what has changed?

 

Of course I agree that to have ONLY 1N or 1NT as the search criterea would be absurd. But to deny it altogether as one of several?

 

I wish I could search here for things less than 4 characters long too. Unfortunately, the software we use will not let you search for anything less than 4 characters. It is something we can not change. You can go to google (www.goggle.com) and click on advanced search (http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en ) and then tell it to search this website (www.bridgebase.com/forums) for three letter words or less (yes, even 1NT). You will find plenty of hits if you do that.

[Rain]

Example, you want to search for the word "1NT"

 

Use Google and type this in the search box

 

site:www.bridgebase.com 1NT

[1eyedjack]

Thanks guys. Sorry, should have thought of that.

 

 

[mgoetze]

Also, it seems to be very tedious to view the profile of a poster with a 3-letter name (e.g. "han").

[mtvesuvius]

Also, it seems to be very tedious to view the profile of a poster with a 3-letter name (e.g. "han").

He's just undercover.

[655321]

Is there a reason for restricting some searches (e.g. Find My Content) to the most recent 12 months? This is another of the ways searching is more difficult than it used to be before the upgrade.

[inquiry]

Is there a reason for restricting some searches (e.g. Find My Content) to the most recent 12 months? This is another of the ways searching is more difficult than it used to be before the upgrade.

 

 

Using the "advanced search tools" you can do searches back to 2005. I am not sure why the cut-off is 2005 as the forum predates that. I will see if that date range can be pushed back even further (many of us joined in 2003).