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Originally Posted by Scott H
I like the Ebay search better, where you can specify a string of words or use an asterisk as a wildcard in part of a word, or even exclude certain words or phrases by using the (-) sign.
(old, vintage, antique) ford ...will give you any listing that has 'ford' and at least ONE of the other words.
(old, vintage, antique) ford -injectors...will eliminate any posts that have the word "injector" but still give you all the ford listings with at least ONE of the other words
In our example "cotter pin oil pan" would ONLY give us posts pertaining to all four words. But apparently our board doesn't work that way.
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The V-Bulletin Boards (used here and on The Hamb) have a poor search function when compared to engines like Ebay and Google et al. It comes down to who has pockets deep enough to pay some very bright people to write the logarithms needed to predictively search through billions of characters written as code.
Simple logarithms used here will not be able to pinpoint exactly what you are trying to find, and so will give you what it thinks is a reasonable search. My experience in searching here has been either one of luck (rare) or frustration. So many times we see someone starting a thread with "I've tried searching but..."
While I sometimes bemoan the poor soul starting his enquiry with 'I've tried...' I understand that the fastest and most reliable way to have a question answered is to ignore the search function and just ask the question. We keep repeating ourselves a lot, then again, none of us are getting any younger lol.
PS. I also have wondered about that little bent split pin, now I know something I didn't know before.