Is there a minimum number of characters for a search?

[mckeand13]

If I search for APC or ASD the search comes back with no results. I know there are plenty so what's up with that?

[gb387]

Re: Is there a minimum number of characters for a search?

I just searched for #83 and it didn't work either... Seems to me we use to search with just the number of the product? huh?!?

[Sydster]

Re: Is there a minimum number of characters for a search?

Same thing here.

[Ryan L.]

Re: Is there a minimum number of characters for a search?

I get the same results.

[Mike Phillips]

Re: Is there a minimum number of characters for a search?

Will check with Ross, the Meguiar's Webmaster.

Hang on...

[Mike Phillips]

Re: Is there a minimum number of characters for a search?

Just e-mailed Ross and his e-mail says he's out of the office today, so as soon as he's back to work and answering e-mail we'll post the details...

[Ross Conradi]

Re: Is there a minimum number of characters for a search?

There's not been a change to the product search on meguiars.com in about two years. I tested things out today as was able to get expected results for any normal search.

Our search looks at the entered string and searches for the exact combination of letters within the product name or description.

I don't know of any products which contain the letters 'apc' or 'asd' consecutively in the name or description, which would explain why those searches were empty.

In the case of the search for #83, the # is not part of the product name nor is it in the keywords, therefore the search coming up empty. I searched on just 83, and it works fine.

There also is no minimum number of letters (search on 'a' a be prepared, since it returns about everything!).

I hope this clears things up for everyone

Ross

[mckeand13]

Re: Is there a minimum number of characters for a search?

I just tried searching "a" and still got nothing.

Are you searching the forum or product page when you are getting results?

[gb387]

Re: Is there a minimum number of characters for a search?

There's not been a change to the product search on meguiars.com in about two years. I tested things out today as was able to get expected results for any normal search.

Our search looks at the entered string and searches for the exact combination of letters within the product name or description.

I don't know of any products which contain the letters 'apc' or 'asd' consecutively in the name or description, which would explain why those searches were empty.

In the case of the search for #83, the # is not part of the product name nor is it in the keywords, therefore the search coming up empty. I searched on just 83, and it works fine.

There also is no minimum number of letters (search on 'a' a be prepared, since it returns about everything!).

I hope this clears things up for everyone

Ross

Ok, now that is strange, I search for 83 or just the letter 'a' and get 'Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms. '

[BlueZero]

Re: Is there a minimum number of characters for a search?

Ok, now that is strange, I search for 83 or just the letter 'a' and get 'Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms. '

Same here.

[sneek]

Re: Is there a minimum number of characters for a search?

search with *(what your looking for)* ...no parentheses

[QiB1400]

Re: Is there a minimum number of characters for a search?

search with *(what your looking for)* ...no parentheses

After some experiments i established that the minimum number of characters is four. I think this is very well proven by the fact that queries like "car" of "wax" show nog results. Allthough with * (wilcards) you can fool the system and you can search for "apc", "car", "wax", etc.

[gb387]

Re: Is there a minimum number of characters for a search?

search with *(what your looking for)* ...no parentheses

Now that seems to work fairly well.... you might get a few inaccurate posts.

[Sydster]

Re: Is there a minimum number of characters for a search?

Guys, I think Ross was talking about the product page.