Searching for 3 letter words like Zeo, AHI, and REM

[Jay Aitchsee]

Those of you who have tried know the result will be "No suitable matches were found" because our search function does not recognize items of less than 4 characters.

A work around is to use Google. In the Google search box, type the word you are looking for, like Zeo, followed by a space followed by "site:cpaptalk.com" (Zeo site:cpaptalk.com). This is a little cumbersome, but you’ll find lots of entries.

Jay

[chunkyfrog]

--but it will search four letter words (nudge, nudge)

[Goofproof]

All you have to do is search for a 3 letter word and add * at the end is stands for wild card and becomes a 4 letter word EX: (AHI*) Jim

[Cotay]

Those of you who have tried know the result will be "No suitable matches were found" because our search function does not recognize items of less than 4 characters.

A work around is to use Google. In the Google search box, type the word you are looking for, like Zeo, followed by a space followed by "site:cpaptalk.com" (Zeo site:cpaptalk.com). This is a little cumbersome, but you’ll find lots of entries.

Jay

Thanks for the tip...this will be helpful in the future. This is a common problem with forum searches at many, if not all, sites.

[deltadave]

All you have to do is search for a 3 letter word and add * at the end is stands for wild card and becomes a 4 letter word EX: (AHI*) Jim

Negative. That will only reveal words that have an additional character (like "s", "?", ",", etc.) making it a 4-character "word".

In the case of Zeo, that method produces 90 results, vs. the 23,800 via Jay's method (TTBOMK, originally discovered by RG).

[deltadave]

OK, this is a much cleaner SE:

MuffEngine

[Jay Aitchsee]

(TTBOMK, originally discovered by RG).

Yes, credit due RG: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=71532&p=659821&hili ... om#p659589

Thanks for pointing that out.

OK, this is a much cleaner SE:

MuffEngine

Yes it is. Maybe we could pin it to the top?

Jay

[Jay Aitchsee]

All you have to do is search for a 3 letter word and add * at the end is stands for wild card and becomes a 4 letter word EX: (AHI*) Jim

This is cool, too. Maybe it could be pinned to the top along with the with the Muffy SE

Jay

[NateS]

Thanks for all these great tips!

Nate

[deltadave]

OK, this is a much cleaner SE:

MuffEngine

Yes it is. Maybe we could pin it to the top?

Unfortunately, the CSE will only return 100 results unless you (or anybody)(except me) pays.

Perhaps another easy (and cheap) shortcut is to save a site:www.cpaptalk.com search as a Favorite

MuffEngine2

and then simply add the word (use a space!) to the search.

Rename it something so you'll remember what it is, customize the icon:



and Viola (or whatever)!

[Jay Aitchsee]

Bump for edm_msu