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You cannot make another search so soon after your last;

Post by bxman »

So how long has this been about?

and

more importantly
How about some of the experts doing a sticky about how to get results from the search facility . I either get no results found or come up with 3569 results.
I was looking for information on ET which is apparently a number relating to wheel off sets.
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Post by spider »

Speaking just from my involvement in forums / servers elsewhere:

Search flood is designed to prevent server abuse, although the settings can be adjusted obviously.

Searching is quite resource intensive, (hence the forced delay) although to be fair searching is usually not something that's done constantly :D

The limitation is a database one (MYSQL will not allow you to search for anything less than three characters), regardless of any server or configuration adjustments. Sphinx search will but that is an entirely different kettle of fish, so to speak.

Regarding getting the best out of it, on this board you can use things like this if you want a result to contain both words:

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orange AND yellow
Or this if it should contain either one or both:

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orange OR yellow
Note, this is not an exclusive or, it will return results that contain both, the only condition that is "true" is either one or both, if both are true it still counts.



Regarding your specific query, try searching for:

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offset
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Post by myglaren »

It has always been there.

Xac has posted this previously but it can help to make a Boolean search
and/or to enclose the search terms in double quotes.

Also, as Xac mentions, it is often more productive to use Google's site search (advanced search on the Google page.

ETA: Whoops, beaten to it by Andy :)
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