Search ? hows it work

[WaYSidE]

Hi, i am reading my way through much of this web site..from wayback 2012 to present .

in your search engine, if i enter the word 'Fry' i get nothing, if I enter 'Cyril Fry' , i get loads of pages returned

why is that and what do i need to do to get better searches ,  i using firefox browser, not that that should matter, and eating jacobs figrolls.

 

i used both exact search word and phrases

Edited February 25, 2019 by WaYSidE

[Admin]

The site has a four character minimum search. Fry is simply too short a phrase. 

[WaYSidE]

thanks.

 

[DJ Dangerous]

On how the search function works, I get zero results when searching for a particular scale.

For example, both “1/18” and “1:18” show zero results, yet both comply with the four charcter minimum.

I feel like being able to search for a scale would be very beneficial.

Also, given how common phrases like “071” and “141” are in our hobby, might it be possible to allow a three-character minimum instead of four?

 

 

[Broithe]

Mmm, it works OK with four-figure years. Presumably, / and : don't 'count as a real characters'..?

Edited 7 hours ago by Broithe

[DJ Dangerous]

4 hours ago, Broithe said:

Mmm, it works OK with four-figure years. Presumably, / and : don't 'count as a real characters'..?

Yup, four character minimum so years are OK, but scales would seem very relevant for this particular forum.

I use a workaround by typing the following line into DuckDuckGo:

site:irishrailwaymodeller.com “071”

…when searching for an 071, or something with less than four characters.

However, that’s a bit hit and miss. For example, replace the “071” with “1:24” and it brings up posts made at twenty four minutes past one.

[Broithe]

Search terms can sometimes be quite unexpectedly ambiguous.

I once needed to stop two adjacent doors from swinging into each other and getting the paint chipped by the handles hitting the faces of the doors. Both doors would never really be open at the same time, so I just needed to limit the swing available to each, so they wouldn't go far enough to strike the other, closed, door.

I fancied something like those sliding arm things that you sometimes got on cupboard doors, but a bit more substantial, to cope with the mass of the 'full-size doors'.

I decided to do an image search to help weed out the lightweight items.

Wondering what these things might be professionally termed as, I decided on "door restraint".

About a quarter of the pictures that were suggested to me showed young ladies, tied to doors and not wearing adequate PPE.