salamanderrake 4 Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 (edited) Why is there a block on searching words with less then 4 letters especially when searching with more then one word? I was trying to search for Doom3 bfg and it wouldn't let me search. I was trying to see if tdm would work with bfg since the source code was released. Edited February 2, 2013 by salamanderrake Quote Link to post Share on other sites
grayman 2982 Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 I don't know the answer to the search limit, but TDM doesn't work with Doom 3 BFG. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
snobel 7 Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 If you're searching the public forums, you can use google: Doom3 bfg site:http://forums.thedarkmod.com To search a thread, add the thread number from the url: Doom3 bfg site:http://forums.thedarkmod.com inurl:14492 ...will find your post above. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
demagogue 1269 Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 It's just something the forum code limits. Searching for 3 letter or smaller words often overwhelms simple search algorithms, so they just simplify things by making it off limits to search words that small. Nothing to do except what snobel mentioned, just search on Google specifying this site. Quote What do you see when you turn out the light? I can't tell you but I know that it's mine. Link to post Share on other sites
i30817 24 Posted February 2, 2013 Report Share Posted February 2, 2013 (edited) string substring searching uses a funky algorithm, by 20-years state of the art, that gets more efficient, the longer he input (the string to search). That's the reason. Edited February 2, 2013 by i30817 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tels 279 Posted February 3, 2013 Report Share Posted February 3, 2013 The usual way forums implemented is that every post, every user account etc. is stored as text in a huge database of entries. To search this giant mass of text, you have to either: * crawl through everything - that is impossible once the forum has more than 100000 posts etc. as it would take way too long* use an index. The index knows which word is where and lets you find things quicker. The problem with the index, tho, is that it can grow rather large, too. Imagine how many different "words" are in the forum, esp. es the texts get longer etc. So usualy the indexing is limited to words of 4 letters and up, and doesn't include things like "..." etc. Google has bigger indexes because they have a lot more computing power than this simple forum server. The indexing can be changed with the database, but I'm not sure if it is that simple for that forum. And I can't do it, anyway. Quote "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) "Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax Link to post Share on other sites
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