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korme
01-26-2004, 09:14 PM
While trying to make a search, I was notified that my search was under the 3 word minimum?

When we upgraded it must have changed the default, as AFAIK there was no previous minimum. If I want to search for "Poker", I can't and it is impossible to make 2 extra words and get the same results.

Thanks
sabotai
01-26-2004, 09:17 PM
Works fine for me...are you sure you didn't get the 3 character minimum error? (Each word has to be 3 letters or more)
FargoFreez aka fof playa
01-26-2004, 09:19 PM
What I'm not too fond of is when some of your search terms are deemed too popular/broad and are thrown out of the search.
korme
01-26-2004, 09:23 PM
Ok, well each word has to be 3 or more is crappy. I searched for "Alan T" to see if anyone had made a post about him being gone, and couldn't. :( So if it is characters per word and not words, it is still a problem.
FargoFreez aka fof playa
01-26-2004, 09:25 PM
Then do this:

"Alan T"

Use quotes.
Simms
01-26-2004, 09:38 PM
Ok, well each word has to be 3 or more is crappy. I searched for "Alan T" to see if anyone had made a post about him being gone, and couldn't. :( So if it is characters per word and not words, it is still a problem.
The character minimum is necessary to keep the search index manageable. If every one-, two-, or three-letter word was made searchable, not only would the search index table be enormous, but we'd probably *still* be in the middle of the upgrade (re-indexing the search tables was what took the better part of 10 hours to complete).

Even the vB support forums have a 4-character minimum for searching.

That said, a new feature of vb3 is the ability to add "words" to a list that can be excluded from the character minimum. ie, if the minimum was 4, you could add "fof" to the "whitelist" and thus make it searchable. If there are specific words in this vein that anybody thinks would be searched frequently, I would imagine they could be added by request.

In the meantime, I believe that adding a * as a wildcard to shorter words does, in fact, offer a workaround (some might call it a bug). Or you can enter a phrase in quotes as mentioned above.