Search for BMW Not working

[101RRS]

I have just bought four 17" BMW wheels for a good price to put some muddies on for my RRS.

I want to review issues that might be associated with their fitting so I did a search for BMW in the D3/RRS section and no results were displayed yet I know they exist. eg I bookmarked this one a while back http://www.aulro.com/afvb/d3-d4-rrs/146648-bmw-wheels.html

How do I search to actually get results like the one in the link above - I must admit I have never had much luck searching for item.

Thanks

Garry

[incisor]

in google type

bmw site:aulro.com

[101RRS]

in google type

bmw site:aulro.com

Thanks - but when searching for one word - shouldn't our (your) system be able to manage that.

I will try google now. (maybe you should link your search menu to google)

Cheers

Garry

[incisor]

Thanks - but when searching for one word - shouldn't our (your) system be able to manage that.

I will try google now. (maybe you should link your search menu to google)

Cheers

Garry

it's all in the FAQ

[isuzurover]

it's all in the FAQ

I assume you mean this bit of the FAQ?


Searching Forums and Threads

How do I search for something?

To quickly find a thread or post of interest anywhere on the bulletin board, click on the 'Search' link in the navigation bar at the top of most forum pages. Then, type in the keyword or phrase you wish to search for, and select either 'Show Threads' or 'Show Posts' to view the results. By selecting posts, you will be shown only the actual post in which the search word appears.

For more control over the search, select 'Advanced Search' from the drop-down box. The advanced search page allows you to restrict your search to individual forums, find posts or threads by user, or return results based on tags (?). There are also options to find posts from a certain date, or threads with a certain number of replies.

How do I search a specific forum or thread?

If you are browsing a forum, you can quickly search for a thread or post within it by clicking on the 'Search this forum' link near the top of the page (it's above the list of threads). You can also search for individual posts within a thread by clicking on the 'Search this Thread' link at the top of any thread view page.

Using Google search to search AULRO.com


There is no mention I can find of the minimum string length. On other sites they allow a minimum string length of 4 but you can still search for BMW by typing BMW*. Is that possible to implement here?

[101RRS]

That does work either.

If I use advanced search, search my Username, keyword BMW, set search for anydate and older with at least no posts etc and just searching the D3/RRS section nothing is found. Not even this thread.

However if I just search my own user name as above but leave the keyword section blank they all pop up - so the Keyword BMW is not liked by the search function.

Garry

[isuzurover]

That does work either.

If I use advanced search, search my Username, keyword BMW, set search for anydate and older with at least no posts etc and just searching the D3/RRS section nothing is found. Not even this thread.

However if I just search my own user name as above but leave the keyword section blank they all pop up - so the Keyword BMW is not liked by the search function.

Garry

The AULRO search does not allow <4 letter search terms. So BMW, ABS, HDC etc are all out. As I mentioned above, unlike other sites you cannot (last I checked) search for them by adding a wildcard (*)

[incisor]

the inbuilt vbulletin search is always been crap..

is better in version 4 but you loose a heap of other features..

[101RRS]

Need at least two works and * does not count as a word.

I can now see why people to not use it or fail to find what they are looking for.

As Incisor suggested I went into FAQs - typed search into the search bar and a number of items came up.

The only one that was directly relevant said this

"How do I search for something?
To quickly find a thread or post of interest anywhere on the bulletin board, click on the 'Search' link in the navigation bar at the top of most forum pages. Then, type in the keyword or phrase you wish to search for, and select either 'Show Threads' or 'Show Posts' to view the results. By selecting posts, you will be shown only the actual post in which the search word appears.
For more control over the search, select 'Advanced Search' from the drop-down box. The advanced search page allows you to restrict your search to individual forums, find posts or threads by user, or return results based on tags (?) (http://www.aulro.com/afvb/faq.php?faq=vb3_board_usage#faq_vb3_tags). There are also options to find posts from a certain date, or threads with a certain number of replies.
How do I search a specific forum or thread?
If you are browsing a forum, you can quickly search for a thread or post within it by clicking on the 'Search this forum' link near the top of the page (it's above the list of threads). You can also search for individual posts within a thread by clicking on the 'Search this Thread' link at the top of any thread view page."


It doesn't say any thing about special rules or wildcard etc


Any way I have asked questions on the thread I linked too and am getting some good answers there. Google works pretty well too.


Thanks


Garry

[incisor]

if you want to do a better text for the FAQ pm it to me and i will add it...

[isuzurover]

if you want to do a better text for the FAQ pm it to me and i will add it...

How about just adding the paragraph:
"Search terms must be a minimum of 4 characters in length. Wildcards (e.g. * ) will be disregarded. Therefore, to search for terms such as "ABS", google search must be used instead (see below). "

Also - I have noticed some sites give you the option of using the built in search or google when you click on the search button. Can that be implemented easily?

[incisor]

the current setting is a minimum of two and a maximum of 80

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

so am not sure where your getting four from..

[isuzurover]

the current setting is a minimum of two and a maximum of 80

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=47643&stc=1&d=1339043654

so am not sure where your getting four from..

Well something is wrong then. Every time I try a word < 4 characters I get:


Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.

See for yourself.

I have tried:
BMW
ABS
ARB (yet ARBS or arbs gives 86 responses. arb* gives the message quoted above)

[incisor]

hmmmm

bmw* gives me 288 responses

bm* gives me 916 responses

b* i went to sleep waiting for the max 3000 responses..


did i mention i just turned * on as a wildcard in the internal search options... :angel:


see how you get on now ...

[101RRS]

did i mention i just turned * on as a wildcard in the internal search options... :angel:


see how you get on now ...

Now I get responses - but not before.

Thanks - I am not as daft as I thought (don't respond to that)

Cheers

Garry

[isuzurover]

hmmmm

bmw* gives me 288 responses

bm* gives me 916 responses

b* i went to sleep waiting for the max 3000 responses..


did i mention i just turned * on as a wildcard in the internal search options... :angel:


see how you get on now ...

Well that is weird. You have something against sandgropers Inc? :D


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