Searching a phone number??

[Budman]

How do I search a number? I just typed in the following number and had 80 hits. When opening the threads some had a protion of the number somewhere in the text others didn't have anything associated with my search number.

This is how I entered the number: 404-717-4936

[Guest050911]

Sir, I copied the number and got 2 hits, one your thread and one a BP review. Not sure what happened to your search. Try copying the number you posted and doing the search again.

Let me know what happens.

Thanks,
PPE

[Budman]

PPE,
I just did it again and got 80 hits. I have it checking all forums. I did open several of the threads and did not find anything in the thread that would associate it with my search.

Thanks for you help, Bud

[Guest050911]

OK, very strange. Here is my search results.

http://www.eccie.net/search.php?searchid=980671

Can you copy and past your search results link?

We will figure this out.

Can you try another phone #?

PPE

[Pflugerbill]

My searches for phone numbers do the same thing as Budman's. I was searching a number the other day and it picked up innumerable hits. The only constant I could see was the area code was the same in all hits.

[SneakyCancer]

narrow the search.....or spend the time to go thru all results.

[Budman]

Here is the link to my search (hope I did this right): http://www.eccie.net/search.php?searchid=982003

[Guest050911]

OK, let me pass this up line and see if we can figure out what is going wrong....

Sorry for the issues!

PPE

[Budman]

Thanks for your help.

[GneissGuy]

Try searching for just the last 4 digits and see if you get better results.

It may be finding all posts that have 404 717 or 4936.

How are you entering the search? Try this page: http://www.eccie.net/search.php

Use the "show results as posts" option.

[bbkid]

I have been having the same issue: far too many hits when I search a phone number. And, I was about to post the same question before I stumbled across this thread.

Originally Posted by Pflugerbill

The only constant I could see was the area code was the same in all hits.

Yes, I am experiencing the same results.

Originally Posted by GneissGuy

Try searching for just the last 4 digits and see if you get better results.

Good idea. Thanks, I'll give that a try.

[Mokoa]

Sometimes enclosing the number in quotes helps. For example, "123-456-7890", or "456-7890". Remember that most search engines use some of the special characters (like the "-", "+", "&") to interpret boolean logic.

So, searching the number 123-4567 may give everything that contains 123 but does not contain 4567. I am not sure if the search engine here is like that.

Yes, we will look into it.

[latinjoblow]

same thing going on with me.