Search does not work well

[InNM]

I did a search on the string "Paint chips off teeth" without the quotes and just get the usual can't find because you need four words or more error. I then said four words to the search function.
Why don't you fix this? It should work on two words Teeth Paint.

[PleoWorldHostCami]

I did a search on the string "Paint chips off teeth" without the quotes and just get the usual can't find because you need four words or more error. I then said four words to the search function.
Why don't you fix this? It should work on two words Teeth Paint.

Hi InNM,

Actually the search does work with 2 words or even one word. What it doesn't seem to like is words with less than 4 letters. Unfortunately in your search string of "Paint chips off teeth" it is picking out the word "off" and therefor not searching. :(

Try the search with just "paint" and "teeth" and it will bring back 22 hits for threads and 9 pages of hits for posts. :D

[roschler]

My guess is that your forum software is using MySQL as a back end. MySQL's text indexing in its default configuration doesn't allow words less than 4 characters long, to avoid having small common words bulk out the index.