whatchadoin Posted July 9, 2002 Share Posted July 9, 2002 why is it when i'm trying to search, a word has to be over 4 letters long. just a suggestion, but wouldn't it make more sense to shorten it to like 2? like when a person is searching for "tweak xp" it won't search because xp is not 4 letters, or msn explorer, it won't search because msn is not 4 letters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keldyn Posted July 9, 2002 Share Posted July 9, 2002 If you ran a search on xp just think how many thousands of entries your search would turn up. :p Would you really want to sift through all those? I think a four character limit is realistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted July 9, 2002 Share Posted July 9, 2002 what about supporting the ability of putting quotes around a query such as: "tweak xp" "msn explorer" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whatchadoin Posted July 9, 2002 Author Share Posted July 9, 2002 Originally posted by Keldyn If you ran a search on xp just think how many thousands of entries your search would turn up. :p Would you really want to sift through all those? I think a four character limit is realistic. just curious :) as for me though, i'd enjoy sifting through them all, hahahaha at least then i'd learn something and not have to post a group of messages each day on how to do something new. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aco Veteran Posted July 9, 2002 Veteran Share Posted July 9, 2002 It's not really because of the many entries that would turn up, it's because having a 3 or 2 character search would make the search database much larger. I suppose the minimum could be decreased to 3, but then the maximum would have to be reduced to xx. :D Redmak should know, but it could be hard to do. :ermm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Dorr Veteran Posted July 9, 2002 Veteran Share Posted July 9, 2002 i can be done lower, or higher in fact too (there is a 10 character max too, did you know that? :D ) The simple reason is the way the search database is made up. Rather than hunting through our post table with a LIKE, vB does things differently. You have two tables. One with every word on the site, each with it's own id, then there is another table that contains a list of which words are in which posts. So, vB just looks up a words id, then does a SELECT postid FROM searchindex WHERE wordid=[insert your search word id here]. So, the more words you have, the larger and more complex the database becomes and the more space we take up and the longer your searches become, etc etc... So, I hope that sheds some light on the situation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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