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SteelBytes wrote:
is there a particular reasons that can't search for a url in a post? eg if I post a link to aliexpress then I'd expect to get results if I search for aliexpress
All BBCode tags are removed from the text before indexing so as not to clutter the index. This is especially true of quote blocks (which would produce a lot of duplicate search results) but links are problematic too, as sloppy, overly-large links with lots of extraneous garbage are just noise to the index.

The one open question that I don't readily know the answer to is if you paste a bare link, without BBCode tags, will any of it survive indexing? Maybe. I don't have the code in front of me at the moment (I'm in Portugal right now) but it's possible that the more word-like portions of a link might make it into the index.

Or I might have deliberately removed bare links, too. It's been a while since I wrote the strip-for-indexing code — actually about 10 years ago, for a previous search indexing effort.
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Using X Search looking for AI, going through the options, comes up with No Matches.
Yet there is this,
(NSR) Forbidden AI
Surely AI would be mentioned in some other posts also.
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The search needs three characters.
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O.K. Here's 3 characters.
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