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Posted by longshot on 02-10-2013 01:25 AM:

Search engine question.

Has anyone else found it annoying that you can't search anything under four letters on this site ? I dunno how many times I've tried to look up a dog or something and got a failed search. Annoying..... Am I missing a way around it ?

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Posted by mitch p on 02-10-2013 01:45 AM:

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Posted by vernonsdream on 02-10-2013 02:27 AM:

Just type it into google along with forums.ukcdogs.com. Quicker, and you get better results

Posted by longshot on 02-10-2013 02:27 AM:

Yep, you can't be specific such as " Gr Nt Ch Duelin Dan"..... The only word you can search is "Duelin" and that genrally pulls up a bunch of stuff you don't want. lol

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Posted by longshot on 02-10-2013 02:28 AM:

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Originally posted by vernonsdream
Just type it into google along with forums.ukcdogs.com. Quicker, and you get better results

Now there's a plan that might just work pretty good.

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Posted by Buckshot on 02-10-2013 02:33 AM:

There is more to just typing a word and hitting the perform search button.

Guys right underneath the box you type to search says:

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Basic query: separate your search terms with spaces.

Advanced query: Join words with AND, OR and NOT to control your search in more detail.

Add asterisks (*) to use wild cards in your search (*bullet* matches vBulletin etc.)

Underneath that is a SEARCH OPTION box where you can narrow the scope of the search to certain sections as well as narrow down based on thread title or entire post.

If you were looking for reviews and discussion on the sunspots but you spell it as "sun", then type in sun* (notice the * after sun) in the top left box then below the search box, choose the UKC COONHOUNDS as the section to search and then choose the Search titles only.

The key to the forum SEARCH features is learning to use all the search feature tools. If you just type a word in the search box then you will come up with EVERY single section that contains the word you entered.

Narrowing down your searches to one section is key. You have eliminated all the sections that will bring no count threads up on what your looking for.

Using the "sun" example above, we just narrowed the search down to one section - the UKC Coonhounds section where most of the sunspot threads are in. By choosing the choose the Search titles only we have narrowed our search down further.

Use my "sun" example the way I did so you can see that you can search using 3 letter words and come up with result.s

Posted by longshot on 02-10-2013 02:39 AM:

Hmmm, good advice Buckshot... I'm still learning to use the Dadgum computer here.

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