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2 character minimum in search
Arantor:
Even then most systems actually omit it anyway. Certainly Sphinx does by default (min length 3), MySQL FULLTEXT does (min length 3), and IIRC even a SMF custom index has a minimum length of 3 as well.
I can't imagine a piece of code that would meaningfully be found with a couple of characters either...
K@:
For a coder, it's probably easier, because you'll know which bits can be omitted, without it affecting the result.
Us mere plebs don't have that advantage. :P
Kindred:
I re-state.....
--- Quote from: Kindred on June 23, 2012, 11:47:17 PM ---how is "a" critical in a search?
searching for "treatise petunias" will bring up the post with the title or contents: "A treatise on petunias"
searching for just "a" would bring up nearly every post....
Even google excludes words like "a" and "an"....
--- End quote ---
K@:
You misunderstand me... (Not surprisingly) :P
What I mean, is when you get a quoted error message, you often get single characters. Especially if that message contains ">", "/", "a=" and the like.
If you copy that error and paste it into "Search", you get that bloody annoying error and a non-coder won't know which characters to omit.
I get around it, myself, by using the "Site search" thingy, on Google (Or whatever).
Does that make more sense?
Arantor:
Most of those characters won't be searchable anyway... all the search backends discard non word characters to some degree, some more than others.
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