search exclusions are annoying - "stag" exclusion

[bladecollectorr]

I love stag handled knives. I collect Schrade USA. I wanted to search all the thread titles in the Schrade Legacy forum for the word "stag" so I could find all threads about stag handled Schrade knives.

This cannot be done. The word "stag" is excluded as being too common. Please fix this. I think many people might want to search for that word all over this site.

[rexstubbins]

Instead of searching for stag try this:

*stag*

This just worked for me.

[kootenay joe]

Does * before and after a word give certain instruction to the computer ?
In what other situations is * helpful ?
kj

[bladecollectorr]

Thanks. That gets it done.

KJ, often an asterisk is used as a "wildcard" in computer commands meaning it can be anything. In this case its a wildcard within a word (no spaces) so fakestag, staglon, bonestag etc will all get displayed. Any prefix and any suffix with stag in there somewhere. Now the word is 6 letters long and uncommon and the search algorithm isn't excluding it. It now displays the plain old "stag" hits I wanted in the first place as well.

Read up about "wildcards" or "wildcard use" in Windows etc if you want to go deep.

[Doc B]

I find it very difficult to use the aapk search feature, sometimes. I often just go to google and put in the search, followed by AAPK and find it faster than using the aapk search.

[OLDE CUTLER]

Now you have 211 posts to read!

[kootenay joe]

Thanks for explaining the use of "*" in search function.
kj