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Originally posted by DigiNut Why not just filter out some of the really stupid search phrases? I know it won't stop the problem, but it might at least reduce it somewhat. Just don't let people search for "trance" or "tiesto" or "armin", etc.

Bad idea. You either have a search that works properly, or none at all. Besides, waaaay too many words to filter out.

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur Bad idea. You either have a search that works properly, or none at all. Besides, waaaay too many words to filter out.

There are already limitations on the search, like it has to be 4 letters or more. What's the difference if certain words are filtered?

It's not like we're talking about security here where we *have* to make sure that no "bad" traffic gets through. Blocking a handful of stupid searches would probably improve the traffic at least slightly, and not seriously inconvenience any users. Most of the n00bs who search for "tiesto" and get 50,000 results are probably just going to hit the "back" button and try to narrow it down anyway, so why not save the extra step and pop up a message saying "please narrow down your search".

Even google does it! If you add the words "how to" to a query it will tell you that they are common words and have been removed from the query. Why can't we do that here with some of the blatantly obvious stuff?

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