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[mito]

I want to search reviews for the game Area 51 for PC in this forum.
Therefore I selected the Search link.

I typed the "Area 51", using quotes.

Many unrelated threads were shown.

Then I tried the string "area and 51", without quotes. Same results.

What's wrong? Or am I doing something wrong?

 

[digitalwanderer]

I entered "area 51" without quotes, then checked the "Search for all terms" radio button right below that box (VERY important!).

Next I used the handy-dandy dropdown box to choose for it to only search the "Games Talk", and this link was on the bottom of the page:

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23890&highlight=area

 

[Dave Baumann]

IIRC the wordsearch index doesn't store strings less than 3 (possibly 4) long, so "51" probably wouldn't be a particularily usful and it would only be looking for instances of the word "area", which is likely to occur a lot.

 

[one]

IIRC the wordsearch index doesn't store strings less than 3 (possibly 4) long, so "51" probably wouldn't be a particularily usful and it would only be looking for instances of the word "area", which is likely to occur a lot.

Can't it be relaxed a bit? Words like "gpu" "api" "dx9" "g70" "ps3" "rsx" "360" can't be included in a query now.