Hobgoblin

The VBulletin search feature is such a piece of cr*p. I tried to search for posts on the movie "die another day" and see what I get?

"The search term you specified (day) is under the minimum word length (4) and therefore will not be found. Please make this term longer.
If this term contains a wildcard, please make this term more specific."

Geoff you need to talk to the idiots who make this software and ask them to fix this.

Groucho

If you want to search for a three-letter word, you can add an asterick. Try "die* another day*".

Adam Tyner

However, "search" is a six-letter word, and searching for 'search' in this forum would return a number of threads where Geoff notes that this is a known issue and one that will hopefully be corrected with the next version of the software.

benedict

1) S
2) E
3) A
4) R
5) C
6) H

Adam Tyner

Well, give or take.

Hobgoblin

I tried this just now and it timed out. This is an I/O intensive search and probably the reason why the coders refused to include three letter words, because they might result in more non-relevant hits than the searcher intended. But they should allow three letter words in conjunction with Boolean operators like AND, OR and NOT, which will keep the search within a restricted scope and hence makes it faster.

benedict

Only joshing.

immortal_zeus

ASTERISK

Static Cling

Closing duplicate thread.