+atari2600land Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 I tried to search the blog for something, but it didn't find it even though I was sure it was there. Frustrated, I searched for all my instances of the word 'the' in my blogs. No results found. Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 The word "the" is a stop word, meaning it is ignored by the search engine due to how common it is. I did search the blogs for the word "aardvark" and quite a few results from your blog were returned. What are you searching for? ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted November 21, 2018 Author Share Posted November 21, 2018 I was looking for past "Dreamcast game thoughts" entries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 Did you try just searching for "dreamcast" ? ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 I might be mistaken, but I think all posts are indexed into words so searching for longer phrases with spaces generally doesn't work as you'd expect since the phrase already was broken up into words in the search index. This is a much faster method than doing full text search through thousands of messages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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