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Searching - Zafarium - 05-14-2005
Why can't we search for words under four letters? Please enlighten.
Searching - DeeBye - 05-14-2005
Zafarium,May 14 2005, 12:38 AM Wrote:Why can't we search for words under four letters? Please enlighten.
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It would put tremendous strain on the server. Repeated searches including common words like "and" or "the" would be a bad thing.
What are you searching for?
Searching - ZatarRufus - 05-15-2005
Zafarium,May 13 2005, 11:38 PM Wrote:Why can't we search for words under four letters? Please enlighten.Clicky
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Edit: You can use Google to search the Lounge for three letter words. To find "jab" type this in the Google search box:
jab site:www.lurkerlounge.com
Searching - Zafarium - 05-16-2005
I was searching for "web comics". It was the title of a post I made polling people to see what their favourite one was. Since I was bored I thought I would go and look at some I hadn't seen before. :shuriken:
Searching - DeeBye - 05-16-2005
Zafarium,May 15 2005, 10:16 PM Wrote:I was searching for "web comics". It was the title of a post I made polling people to see what their favourite one was. Since I was bored I thought I would go and look at some I hadn't seen before. :shuriken:
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Try searching your own topics :)
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Searching - Zafarium - 05-16-2005
DeeBye,May 15 2005, 08:13 PM Wrote:Try searching your own topics :)
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Ahhhhhhhhhhh.... Thank you! :rolleyes:
Searching - Malakar - 05-17-2005
I believe it has something to do with the forum software using MySQL, which has this limitation.
They should use an exclusion system like google for common words, without the arbitrary 3-letter limit which excludes a multitude of useful abbreviations.