[einarabelc5]

Hi,

There's an annoying validator installed in this forum for searches strings. It counts characters between spaces and then stops the search throwing an error saying:

"You entered words that are less than four characters wrong..blahblah blah"

If you try searching:

"How to Play Run to the Hills"

It will throw an error because of short words.

[osirus211]

einarabelc5, on 19 December 2011 - 02:57 PM, said:

Hi,

There's an annoying validator installed in this forum for searches strings. It counts characters between spaces and then stops the search throwing an error saying:

"You entered words that are less than four characters wrong..blahblah blah"

If you try searching:

"How to Play Run to the Hills"

It will throw an error because of short words.

That's true for most search engines. It's all about matching efficiency. Matching a two letter word to a forum full of txt or even worse, an entire internet database, would require way too much time and wouldn't yield any useful results because "to" would match "tomorrow" "today" "toby keith," etc., etc. If you're making a search like that on this forum, or google, or youtube, your most efficient search would most likely be "play run hills" or even better, put the entire string above in quotes... that way, it won't match the two letter words to anything except in that exact context you specified in your string.

[osirus211]

osirus211, on 20 December 2011 - 01:30 PM, said:

That's true for most search engines. It's all about matching efficiency. Matching a two letter word to a forum full of txt or even worse, an entire internet database, would require way too much time and wouldn't yield any useful results because "to" would match "tomorrow" "today" "toby keith," etc., etc. If you're making a search like that on this forum, or google, or youtube, your most efficient search would most likely be "play run hills" or even better, put the entire string above in quotes... that way, it won't match the two letter words to anything except in that exact context you specified in your string.

I just checked, this forum's search engine doesn't support it... the quotes didn't work. Searching for "play hills" worked.

[einarabelc5]

osirus211, on 20 December 2011 - 01:33 PM, said:

I just checked, this forum's search engine doesn't support it... the quotes didn't work. Searching for "play hills" worked.

Ha, me too and as about to tell you sigh....