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Started by Roadgeekteen, May 09, 2020, 03:41:31 PM

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Roadgeekteen

The search function for some reason does not let you type only one character words or single numbers. Makes it hard to search for 2 lane roads related topics.
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kphoger

Just leave out the "2", and "lane roads" should do you pretty well.
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Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

Max Rockatansky

Wouldn't a single character search literally just pull up every single instance that character was used?

kphoger

Quote from: Max Rockatansky on May 09, 2020, 04:31:41 PM
Wouldn't a single character search literally just pull up every single instance that character was used?

Correct.  The search query finds all instances of the string, whether it's part of another word or not.  So searching for {2 lane roads} would pull up every post with "lane" and "roads" and...

*  "2" in the topic number
*  "2" in the message number
*  "2" in the time stamp
*  "2" anywhere in post, including topic number, message number, or time stamp of any quoted material.

I think you can see why that would be an undesirable feature.
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Male pronouns, please.

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Scott5114

Add "site:aaroads.com" to a query on Google and it will limit results to only this site.
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Mapmikey

If you put the phrase in quotes you can use single character words...

"2 lane road" produced 11 pages on a search.



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