Search in this forums seems to ignore 3-character words?

[hmc]

Hi,


is it only me, or is it generally not possible to use the search here for 3-character search terms?


e.g. if I try to search for "USB OTG", no results come up. Even if I only search for "USB".


Many such meaningful abbreviations contain only three characters. Hence It would be good, if search would work with them.

 

[fusion_power]

Most Forum search functions need at least 4 characters, I noticed this pretty often. Quotes like in google search to connect 2 or more words as one with " " also seems not to help.

 

[NLS]

Yeah, it's a bummer about most forum searches. They should just "blacklist" the most common short 3 words like "the" and "and", and allow all other words that are 3 characters long.

 

[Binky]

. They should just "blacklist" the most common short 3 words like "the" and "and", and allow all other words that are 3 characters long.

quote++

 

[FaeMinx]

Hell yes. This freaking peeves me no end.


It makes me want to find someone, anyone... and maul them with a blunt spoon. :angry:

 

[Fzero]

Would be a good idea to edit the feature to omit those common 3 letter words [and/the/etc] and allow the rest to be searchable.


As a workaround, you could use the asterisk wildcard, which would detect a 'space character' then show your results in most cases...


example:


USB*


that will show the posts with USB mentioned.


depending on the term, I guess some searches would not be ideal.


Also could take it to google and use their search site feature, example:


USB site:boards.openpandora.org


Not perfect, but might save you some stress for the immediate one

 

[hmc]

thanks, good hints, at least for a temporary workaround. ;-)


ED, would it be possible for you to change the search behavior on this forum?

 

[fusion_power]

Yeah, especialy in the IT, there are so many 3-character-words, USB, FPS, DPS, DSP, SGX, LAN, CPU, GPU... ^^

 

[Fzero]

And retro gaming... SMD, PSP, GBA, SMS, NES, PCE, etc...