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Opus1guy
02-13-2006, 10:15 AM
Hi Admins.

I tried using the "Search" feature this morning in the Disneyland Forum, searching for all threads with "Opus1guy" participating that contained the keyword "alone" in the "Title Only"...and rather than working correctly...it just instantly brought back any threads where I participated and completely ignored the Keyword side of the equation.

Same results if I switched the "alone" to "In Posts" rather than "Title Only."

Just thought you should know.

Andrew
02-13-2006, 11:14 AM
Apparently "alone" is not a usable keyword: "The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search: alone". Try another keyword?

Opus1guy
02-13-2006, 11:41 AM
Apparently "alone" is not a usable keyword: "The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search: alone". Try another keyword?

I've seen that error message before, but not this time. I didn't get any sort of advisory about "alone" being too common. It simply returned all threads in which Opus1guy participated. Is that normal?

Andrew
02-13-2006, 11:46 AM
Click this link (http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/search.php?searchid=292826) within the next ten minutes or so (I'm not sure how soon searches expire) and you'll see the "very common" error message at the top of the search results. The output you saw is correct for a member-name search with no keywords, and since the keyword you entered was not actually searched, that's what you got.

Opus1guy
02-13-2006, 04:40 PM
Click this link (http://mousepad.mouseplanet.com/search.php?searchid=292826) within the next ten minutes or so (I'm not sure how soon searches expire) and you'll see the "very common" error message at the top of the search results. The output you saw is correct for a member-name search with no keywords, and since the keyword you entered was not actually searched, that's what you got.

Ah...got it. I just assumed it would give me an error message if either one of the search criteria were invalid.


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