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Mar 1,`09 3:39pm | Quote |

Hey all,
Just another quick question... When I search for my comic "Dot Dot Dot" in the drunk duck search field, my comic doesn't appear in the search results. I was just wondering if that's normal or if I need to change a setting or something to make it searcheable by people visiting the site?

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Graeme

 
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Mar 1,`09 4:09pm | Quote |

Unfortunately you're a victim of the search's programming. When it was written it was told to ignore any search terms of 3 letters or less (I guess to ignore words like the, of, an, etc... Of course that means that it's also going to ignore 'dot' :[ This has happened to other comics too.

Google's search will still find it, but that's probably not much consolation.

 
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Mar 1,`09 7:49pm | Quote |

It's more than three letters though, there are 3 three letter words with spaces!

It may be as Skool says or it just may be that the comic hasn't been added to the search yet. It can take a while for that to happen.
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Seeing as how your comic was added on the 25th, Skool is probably correct

This post was last edited on Mar 1,`09 7:52pm

 
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Mar 2,`09 3:31am | Quote |

Since each word is only 3 letters, it think it's just ignoring each instance. "dot dot dot" is just as ignorable as "dot" by itself, or even something like "the one dot" or "a big dot" ... :/ I really don't understand why they programmed it that way. If they could program it to ignore words under 3 letters, they'd have been better of programming it to ignore the specific words they didn't want like the, a, an, of...

 
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Mar 2,`09 7:34pm | Quote |

Thanks for the clarification guys. I can see how this could be a problem! Does anyone know of a way around this issue? Other than me changing the name of my comic!
Cheers,
Graeme

 
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Mar 8,`09 7:43pm | Quote |

Wait and see is the best answer I can think of. Or maybe the big guys are right...

 
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Mar 8,`09 11:55pm | Quote |

Well it's still not showing up...
The best soloution would really be to delete it and change the name to DotDotDot like your nick. Sorry man. Although I don't know if many people look for DD comics directly by name through the DD search engine anyway.

 
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Mar 9,`09 5:43pm | Quote |

Well that sucks! I guess I'll have to think about it for a bit! I don't know if it's worth deleting everything and starting over or not... Thanks for looking into it guys. Much appreciated!
Cheers,
Graeme

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