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Link to "Search question"by ira on Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:15 pm

Recently I saw a link to an exploded diagram of a Robur which clearly showed the gearbox and for the life of me I can't find it. As I recall the link was hidden in the word "here" and so I tried looking for the word "here" and the search engine claims that there is no message in the last 3 months containing the word here:

No posts were found because the word here is not contained in any post.

While I guess it's possible, I find it rather far fetched that the word here is not used anywhere in the Forums on this site.

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Link to "Search question"by HB on Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:27 pm

For faster search results, the native search automatically excludes common words like "the", "here", "etc". You can use google with the site: keyword if the native search isn't working for you.
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Link to "Search question"by ira on Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:01 am

I expected, but in that case, the message is misleading. Also given that my search was "+robur here" that answer is especially odd.

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Link to "Search question"by HB on Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:32 am

I agree, it's an odd message. Something like "The word here appears in too many posts; please try again with more specific keyword(s)" would be better, agreed? Keep in mind that the default is AND for the search ("Search for all terms or use query as entered"), so your entry of "+robur here" is the same as "+robur +here".
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Link to "Search question"by ira on Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:27 pm

Yes, but the number of posts with Robur is small so the number of posts with robur and here must be even smaller. Seems like here shouldn't cause the error unless it's alone or all the words in the set fall into the set of common words.

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Link to "Search question"by HB on Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:59 pm

I see your point, thanks for the clarification.
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