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Chris Schumann
09-11-2008, 1:11 PM
I have an elm tree in my yard that split in a storm. It has to come down, and I'm thinking of using it for the 21st Century Workbench, but tried to search for other ideas.

Searching for elm tells me that elm was removed as a search term, but oak works just fine. If I use "elm" (with quotes) I get no matches.

Any ideas?
Joe Cunningham
09-11-2008, 2:18 PM
Use Google. Put this in the search area:

elm site:sawmillcreek.org
Lars Thomas
09-11-2008, 3:23 PM
or go here . . .
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/google.php
Tom Veatch
09-11-2008, 7:21 PM
When I click on "Search" in the menu bar at the top of the screen, it gives me 3 text boxes. The top one is a Google search of the forum, middle one is the "regular" forum search engine, bottom one is a "blog" search engine. I just always use the top, Google, search and avoid the "search term is too small" error message.
Joe Cunningham
09-11-2008, 9:20 PM
or go here . . .
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/google.php

Huh, hadn't seen that.

The nice thing is my way will work with any site. I belong to several sites which use vBulletin and run up against this 'search term too small' problem.
Jim Becker
09-11-2008, 9:30 PM
For background, Aaron has explained that indexing for three letter searches would require massive amounts of processor time and we've chosen to forgo that. Prior to being able to use the Google search as an alternative, this was an unfortunate situation. But given the ability to utilize Google's CPU cycles for three letter searches, we are in a pretty good place now.

That said, I still like the "Advanced Search" for many of the types of searches I do where I want to restrict to a particular forum, etc.

Jim
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Chris Schumann
09-12-2008, 9:22 AM
All those features do indeed work. Thank you for the tips, folks. I'm still puzzled (as a programmer) that elm is treated differently than oak. Oh well.
Justin Leiwig
09-12-2008, 9:47 AM
All those features do indeed work. Thank you for the tips, folks. I'm still puzzled (as a programmer) that elm is treated differently than oak. Oh well.

It's a dirty little secret held by those that want to bring back early 80s country kitchen style. :D