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by ChrisStarbuck on Sat Jun 03, 2017 1:12 am
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I've tried everything I can think of to search for any forum threads on the Canon 5DS, and the "5DS" is always ignored because it's too short and therefore must be a common word that occurs too often to be useful.  Leaving me with nearly 12000 hits on "Canon".

I can't even search for "how to search", because the search ignores "how" and "to"; they're too short.

How can I structure a search for a camera model (or anything else) that's only 3 characters (or 2, like the Canon 6D)?

Is there a complete guide to searching the site that I've missed?
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by Carol Clarke on Sat Jun 03, 2017 9:55 am
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One example below, I used 'Advanced Search' under the 'Search the community' box by searching Photography Equipment for 'review of Canon 5DS'

Is this any help.....


viewtopic.php?f=57&t=256788&hilit=review+of+canon+5ds

You can of course search any individual forum in this way.
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by ChrisStarbuck on Sat Jun 03, 2017 7:46 pm
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Thanks Carol. I had tried the "+" on the advanced search form, but had a space between the words like "+Canon +5DS", and it ignored the "5DS" as too short.
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by nclements on Sun Jun 04, 2017 1:06 pm
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One possible approach is to use Google and tell it to return hits specifically on naturescapes.net. Something like:

site:www.naturescapes.net "canon 5ds"

The above returned 11 results initially, 25 when I allowed it to show similar results. Removing the quotes around "canon 5ds" gave me more results, but still a manageable number.

The decision to not allow 3-character words was made several years ago. The reason is because there are about 2.5 million posts with nearly 500,000 indexed words. Adding in 3-character words more than quadruples that. (As it stands, there are about 31 million word-to-post relations indexed which is already unfortunately slow for searches on the hardware that NSN uses. Allowing 3-character words would send that number through the roof and would significantly slow down searches.)

The use of google might not be ideal but they have a much larger/faster infrastructure.

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by ChrisStarbuck on Sun Jun 04, 2017 2:35 pm
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nclements wrote:One possible approach is to use Google and tell it to return hits specifically on naturescapes.net. Something like:

site:www.naturescapes.net "canon 5ds"

The above returned 11 results initially, 25 when I allowed it to show similar results. Removing the quotes around "canon 5ds" gave me more results, but still a manageable number.

The decision to not allow 3-character words was made several years ago. The reason is because there are about 2.5 million posts with nearly 500,000 indexed words. Adding in 3-character words more than quadruples that. (As it stands, there are about 31 million word-to-post relations indexed which is already unfortunately slow for searches on the hardware that NSN uses. Allowing 3-character words would send that number through the roof and would significantly slow down searches.)

The use of google might not be ideal but they have a much larger/faster infrastructure.

Hope this helps
Thanks.  That gives me more options, and ideas for generally helping me with searches.  I've bookmarked this thread for future reference.
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