seraching... "MIGHT" is an ingored word??? :P

[Danzilla]

What the heck. I try to do and advanced search with "Heroes Might Magic", but I can't because 'MIGHT' is ingnored. I know it MIGHT be used as a, what, adverb? (danm, like I remember english.) It also has other meanings and seems stupid to be ignored. Just one more annoyingly pointless thing not allowed in these forums it seems.

error received:
Your search contained ignored words, ignored words are words like a,and,to,between.Please re-construct your search without these ignored words.

 

[Jason Clark]

Yep, microsoft sql server ignores most words like that. Annoying, possibly. Pointless, no, the reasoning for it is that those types of noise words are typically used alot. If sql was to index every word known to man the indexes would be huge, and the searches would get slower. So, pointless it is not..

List of ingored words:

about
1
after
2
all
also
3
an
4
and
5
another
6
any
7
are
8
as
9
at
0
be
$
because
been
before
being
between
both
but
by
came
can
come
could
did
do
each
for
from
get
got
has
had
he
have
her
here
him
himself
his
how
if
in
into
is
it
like
make
many
me
might
more
most
much
must
my
never
now
of
on
only
or
other
our
out
over
said
same
see
should
since
some
still
such
take
than
that
the
their
them
then
there
these
they
this
those
through
to
too
under
up
very
was
way
we
well
were
what
where
which
while
who
with
would
you
your
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[allisolm]

Good thing I don't need to search for "to be or not to be" . I'd have to reduce it to "not".

 

[Drakkon]

Originally posted by: allisolm
Good thing I don't need to search for "to be or not to be" . I'd have to reduce it to "not".

well dont try looking it up on Google either then

 

[allisolm]

Originally posted by: Drakkon

Originally posted by: allisolm
Good thing I don't need to search for "to be or not to be" . I'd have to reduce it to "not".

well dont try looking it up on Google either then

Sadly enough, it works on google.

 

[Drakkon]

Originally posted by: allisolm

Originally posted by: Drakkon

Originally posted by: allisolm
Good thing I don't need to search for "to be or not to be" . I'd have to reduce it to "not".

well dont try looking it up on Google either then

It works on google.

? my link shows a search for "to be or not to be" without the quotes and it shows up with Hot or NOT as the link...saying it ignored to, be, and or...

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: allisolm
Good thing I don't need to search for "to be or not to be" . I'd have to reduce it to "not".

LOL

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: allisolm
Good thing I don't need to search for "to be or not to be" . I'd have to reduce it to "not".

not is a reserved search keyword so that wouldn't do you any goos either.

 

[ProviaFan]

Where this becomes a major problem is trying to search for a thread in which you know the title, but can't remember anything terribly distinctive about the contents. I almost wish things were as they were before the fulltext search came back. At least one could effectively search for a thread by title, instead of trying 1000 different combinations of "descriptive" words to get something that not only finds the result you want but also does so without you having to dig through 25 pages of search results to find it. Too bad we can't have the best of both worlds. :disgust:

 

[Yomicron]

Originally posted by: Drakkon

Originally posted by: allisolm
Good thing I don't need to search for "to be or not to be" . I'd have to reduce it to "not".

well dont try looking it up on Google either then

With Google you can put "to be or not to be" in quotes and it will work. With FuseTalk, it still reports having ignored words.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Drakkon

Originally posted by: allisolm
Good thing I don't need to search for "to be or not to be" . I'd have to reduce it to "not".

well dont try looking it up on Google either then

Or put a plus sign before each word.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: Drakkon

Originally posted by: allisolm
Good thing I don't need to search for "to be or not to be" . I'd have to reduce it to "not".

well dont try looking it up on Google either then

Or put a plus sign before each word.

this is what I do.

 

[Jason Clark]

Guys, fusetalk has absolutely nothing to do with this, nothing...

This is microsoft sql server full text search that controls the ignored words, they can be changed but we are not interested in 50 gb indexes

 

[mugs]

Do you think maybe you could code so that it indicated which word(s) in your search phrase were ignored? I did a search the other day where I didn't think any of the words were significantly more common than the others, so I had to take them out one by one until I found the right one.

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: Jason Clark
Guys, fusetalk has absolutely nothing to do with this, nothing...

This is microsoft sql server full text search that controls the ignored words, they can be changed but we are not interested in 50 gb indexes

I actually think it's a cool feature :thumbsup:

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: mugs
Do you think maybe you could code so that it indicated which word(s) in your search phrase were ignored? I did a search the other day where I didn't think any of the words were significantly more common than the others, so I had to take them out one by one until I found the right one.