Feedback or requests for help with the site.
Jan 27th, 2018, 11:50 pm
I'm unable to restrict the search when some of the words are too short.
Many book authors use one or two single letters name and when I search for them the results use only the surname.
For example if I search for L P Davies, using "L P Davies" or "L. P. Davies", the results are filtered only by "Davies".
Is there a way to restrict the search?
Jan 27th, 2018, 11:50 pm
Jan 30th, 2018, 9:11 pm
Getting good search on a site is incredibly complex. Even far larger sites than ours usually choose to use the search engines of companies that specialize in developing search engines (check cnn.com for example, the 27th biggest site in the US, and even they don't have their own search engine). Behemoths like Google have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into their algorithms and people nowadays are somewhat spoiled with the result. Small sites like ours cannot afford to do the same. The minimum characters indexed by our search is 3, anything less than that will not add anything to your results.

Alternatively, you can search like this by using google to only display results from mobilism.org:
site:mobilism.org EnterYourSearchTermsHere
Jan 30th, 2018, 9:11 pm
Jan 31st, 2018, 7:52 pm
Thank for your help!
Jan 31st, 2018, 7:52 pm