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No results searching for "VLC"

Posted: 2013-04-10 18:07
by Leoncio
When I search for "VLC", the multimedia player, I don't get any results; but there are posts in this forum about this player, as can be seen in these examples:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... ne#p452797
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... ne#p452791

Is there any problem in the searching engine or it's me that I don't search well?

Re: No results searching for "VLC"

Posted: 2013-04-10 18:16
by Pick2
You need more than 3 letters for the forum search to work , USB will not work either. Use your favorite search engine instead:

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VLC   site:forums.debian.net

Re: No results searching for "VLC"

Posted: 2013-04-10 18:30
by Leoncio
Thanks a lot Pick2!
:)

Re: No results searching for "VLC"

Posted: 2013-10-07 10:00
by Geoff 42
Another approach is to add an asterisk to your TLA, so that there are more than 3 letters, thus a search for "vlc*" does work, although you may have a few invalid hits, so that "xen*" will also find "xenix" as well as "xen".

Geoff