SEARCH HELP

[Gary59 0]

Tried to enter I-94 in the Search Box....no results....message says that one or more of my keywords have less than four characters. Duuuhhhhhh!! How are we supposed to do a search for info on I-94's or info on any document with less than four letters? Can anyone help me?

[scy 0]

Tried to enter I-94 in the Search Box....no results....message says that one or more of my keywords have less than four characters. Duuuhhhhhh!! How are we supposed to do a search for info on I-94's or info on any document with less than four letters? Can anyone help me?

No one besides Captain Ewok will be able to change the search settings. Post this in the Site Related Discussion forum so Captain Ewok can see it.

[happyimmigrant 0]

Tried to enter I-94 in the Search Box....no results....message says that one or more of my keywords have less than four characters. Duuuhhhhhh!! How are we supposed to do a search for info on I-94's or info on any document with less than four letters? Can anyone help me?

Because of the way the searches work.

There is a large table in the database containing every unique word in every forum post of four letters or longer. There is a second table in the database that has a pointer to each word, and a pointer to each message it appears in.

By not including short words that appear in large amounts in many messages, and that are essentially pointless to search on, such as "a, the, my, it, and, or, etc....." it cuts down on the size of the tables immensely - and also on the time it takes to search, and the load on the server.

....I'm obviously one of the geeks who programs the code underlying these forums and knows how they work underneath.

[meauxna 15]

The Work Around:

Use an asterisk!

EAD* AOS* I-864* etc

[Gary59 0]

Tried I-94* search....no luck....same result! If I'm not mistaken, a while back I did a search using just I-94 and received satisfactory results. Just my opinion, bu so far, I'm not impressed with the "improved" site!!

[kc456 0]

It was the same way before. I tried searching for "EAD" and it was too short.

[aussiewench 9]

There does seem to be a problem in the search when using the asterisk with 3 character words that wasnt an issue with the old board. It is something that once Ewok is aware of he will remedy.

[Gary59 0]

Well, I posted the search problem on the Site Related Discussion Forum....maybe we can get some help on this from the powers that be.