Can't search Snowest for 3 lettered terms

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Why, oh why, is there a limitation on the search engine to no less than 4characters???

In this sport, hobby, whatever you want to call it, with so many terms like RMK, 670, 900, RX1, etc., etc., why would you limit the search results and make the forum basically useless for someone looking for information on their 700 RMK, or their RX1, or say all 800's in the SkiDoo section?

Who runs this thing and came up with this stupid rule? I know it's a board selectable limitation and could be changed.

Why can't I find any contact information for help or complaints??

Seriously, this is totally dumb. Anyone else have problems with this? Anyone else want it changed?

 

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I think it sucks too...

 

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or if you want to search for 144, 151, etc. in the tracks swap section

 

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Protip: Pad it with a space....

 

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Leave SW and go to google. Search useing that, and put Snowest in the search terms. So if you wanter RMK type in snowest rmk

 

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Mule said:

Protip: Pad it with a space....

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That didn't work for me, tried ^166 and 166^ and didn't have any luck.

Google using snowest 166 did okay, but it's a cheesy workaround for something that should have never been implemented in the first place....

Who do we have to complain to??

 

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Probably a denial of service attack. Write a script to just issue lots of short letter searches and shut the server down. Just a guess. Long word searches would take a lot less time to search, and sort.

 

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Wade said:

Probably a denial of service attack. Write a script to just issue lots of short letter searches and shut the server down. Just a guess. Long word searches would take a lot less time to search, and sort.

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Most other forums require you to be logged in to search, or if you're not they have human authentication thingy with the screwy letters you have to match.

I'd sure like to see this forum move to that system.

 

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google.com, keyword site:snowest.com. As long as robots.txt doesn't forbid indexing, google's probably got it.

 

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Mule said:

google.com, keyword site:snowest.com. As long as robots.txt doesn't forbid indexing, google's probably got it.

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Good info. :beer;

 

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Mule said:

google.com, keyword site:snowest.com. As long as robots.txt doesn't forbid indexing, google's probably got it.

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Nerrrrrrrrrrrrrds. :beer;

 

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Scott said:

Nerrrrrrrrrrrrrds. :beer;

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"Nerds" make the world go 'round :beer;:beer;


Don't we have enough people here to say "Hey, we want this changed"

 

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ckspeed said:

"Nerds" make the world go 'round :beer;:beer;


Don't we have enough people here to say "Hey, we want this changed"

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Sure, but Snowest can't afford a data center the size of Google's. I wish they could change it too, but I'm sure there's an economic reason for not doing so.

 

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Nerrrrrrrrrrrrrds. :beer;

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damn proud of it too

Just wait till i put a computer on my sled

 

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Shamefully, I have to admit I've carried one in my pack before :face-icon-small-dis

Cellular Internet connection via Bluetooth, honestly it was a one time thing though and I promise not to do it again...really.

 

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haha, no, i'm talking about putting one on the sled... replace the dash with a computer... gps, radio, etc, all integrated into one device...

And you know damn well it'll have bluetooth, wifi, etc...

 

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Haha.