Searches

[Moondanse]

Why can't we search for words that are four characters or less. I've had a tough time finding certain information because the word isn't enough characters. A good example was trying to search for "ham" posts around Easter dinner. I had to search for "easter" in order to find threads that also included ham. It's a little frustrating. Am I doing something wrong?

[Nantzie]

The regular search function is just limited that way. It's the way this message board software was written, and there's no way to do anything about it.

But, Scott has put a link on this page - up at the top where there's a search box with the example of tomato sauce, showing how we can use that box to do a more advanced search. You can even search just one or two letters or numbers. You also can use that example and search other websites for whatever you want. Comes in handy sometimes.

For ham, the search string should look like this -

ham site:www.glutenfreeforum.com

And should give you this page as a result -

Open Original Shared Link

Nancy

[confused]

The regular search function is just limited that way. It's the way this message board software was written, and there's no way to do anything about it.

But, Scott has put a link on this page - up at the top where there's a search box with the example of tomato sauce, showing how we can use that box to do a more advanced search. You can even search just one or two letters or numbers. You also can use that example and search other websites for whatever you want. Comes in handy sometimes.

For ham, the search string should look like this -

ham site:www.glutenfreeforum.com

And should give you this page as a result -

Open Original Shared Link

I am so glad soemone asked this, i have wondered myself. It seems all the stuff i want to search is 3 letters. so this is nice to know. maybe i wont be asking as many questions now lol

paula

Nancy