Can't search for 'hdmi'

[alexbirkett]

I get the following error message:
'The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: hdmi.'

[DirkS]

You could try Google site search by using 'site:www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3 hdmi' as the search term. It will still bring up tons of results though...

Gr.
Dirk.

[Joe Schmoe]

I get the following error message:
'The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: hdmi.'

I always do my searches wrapped in *s. This is the workaround for the bug.

I.e., search for *hdmi*.

[paulknewton]

Is it possible that common words such as 'hdmi' are excluded to avoid too much load on the forum search server? I'm not sure it is a 'bug'.

In which case, wrapping it in '*' is probably only going to make the problem worse.

[jsebean]

Is it possible that common words such as 'hdmi' are excluded to avoid too much load on the forum search server? I'm not sure it is a 'bug'.

That exactly, though this "forum search server" you speak of is most likely the same server that runs the rest of the site, unless they got some weird mod installed.

phpBB's search feature is not Google, if you want to search for the ambiguous term "HDMI" use google site specific search feature.

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site:raspberrypi.org HDMI

That would search HDMI on what Google has crawled on raspberrypi.org, granted there's over 35000 results, hence the reason why the forum doesn't let you search it, it would be insanely database intensive. This is not a bug, but the way the forum platform is made, the people who made it basically assumed the site owners didn't have the capabilities to run an entire Google