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ermabwed
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 posted September 26, 2010 02:06 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for ermabwed Click Here to Email ermabwed Send a private message to ermabwed Click to send ermabwed an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote View ermabwed's Have/Want ListView ermabwed's Have/Want List
The have/want forum seems to use a list of accepted terms to search, perhaps the card list from the price guide software or something similar. This is frustrating for a number of non-routine but not necessarily fringe searches where the search feature will return no result even when I know there are pages that contain the word(s) I'm searching for.

For example, the following queries produce no result:
- misprint (miscut, crimped, error, summer, alternate)
- Scars of Mirrodin cards
- set names, etc (promo, Beta, FBB)
- foreign card names, or names of languages

While I do appreciate the ability of the software as it exists to discriminate partial matches (for example a seach for "Opal" returns Opal Archangel but not Opalescence) I don't think that's necessarily essential. I would rather have the ability to search for matching text, even if it wasn't a card name.

Could that be done without screwing up the trade matcher?

 
nderdog
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 posted September 26, 2010 07:42 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for nderdog Click Here to Email nderdog Send a private message to nderdog Click to send nderdog an Instant MessageVisit nderdog's Homepage  Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote View nderdog's Have/Want ListView nderdog's Have/Want List
Are you using the standard Search feature, or the one designed for the H/W lists? As far as I know, the H/W-specific one doesn't handle the kinds of terms you are using, but I'd think that the standard search would work okay, but that's just a guess.

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ermabwed
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 posted September 28, 2010 10:40 PM   Click Here to See the Profile for ermabwed Click Here to Email ermabwed Send a private message to ermabwed Click to send ermabwed an Instant Message Edit/Delete Message Reply With Quote View ermabwed's Have/Want ListView ermabwed's Have/Want List
Yes, it does. Only the bar at the top of the have/want forum has this limitation.

Honestly I hadn't realized there was a different search function until you mentioned it. Thanks!

 
Tha Gunslinga
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That other search function won't hit the initial post for stuff like "crimped" and what-not, as far as I know.

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google works great.. just google magictraders and what you're looking for.. it takes you right to lists.
 

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