How do you search the forums for short terms like "IP"?

[XXP]

What's the proper way to search the vB support forums for short terms like "IP"?

Thanks

[antotony]

hmm.. why do you want to do that? I don't think you can view other peoples' IP adresses. Only admins can do that. Sorry mate

[Dilly]

What? He didn't say he wanted to view IP addresses - he wanted to search for the word IP. :?

Anyway, the word IP is not indexed in the databases. It's not efficiently possible to search for that.

[Cyber Smoke]

The forum also hangs on the word "vbulletin", so you cannot use it as a search string for site url's having it as a part of their name

[Mazinger]

You can use Google to seach this forum:

http://www.google.com.eg/search?hl=ar&q=site%3Avbulletin.com%2Fforum+ip

[XXP]

What? He didn't say he wanted to view IP addresses - he wanted to search for the word IP. :?

Thanks & correct. My query was for the term "IP". More specifically as in "session IP octet".

It's part of the name of settings in the system so I was hoping that, for such as that anyway, the search restrictions might be overcome.


Re: indexing; thanks for the insight. I understand if they don't want to run straight text searches but perhaps TPTB could whitelist key terms in the system and/or documentation. That would be swell.

[XXP]

You can use Google to seach this forum:

www.google.com.eg/search?hl=ar&q=site%3Avbulletin.com%2Fforum+ip

Thanks. This is a great tip.

I was a little thrown by the arabic at first so, anyone who follows this, change it to take out the language tag ("hl=ar") to have it search in your default.

Using your tip I was able to go directly to useful info on "session IP octet" -- though it ended up being at the dot-org website.
www.google.com/search?q=site%3Avbulletin.org+session+ip+octet

Thanks again.

[Mazinger]

I was a little thrown by the arabic at first so, anyone who follows this, change it to take out the language tag ("hl=ar") to have it search in your default.
Thanks again.

Yeah. I didn't notice these arabic tags.