Issue searching?

[jeantarrou]

Hey guys,

I've tried repeatedly to search "KTM" with zero results? Searching SMT also brings up nothing, any thoughts?

Thanks

[jasnmar]

I know nothing of the actual implementation of the search engine, but experimentation tells me that phrases / words of less than 3 letters are ignored by the search here.


Best bet. Go to Google and type in
site:nestreetriders.com KTM

[aldend123]

I can't speak for this forum, but it's common for non-commercial sites like smaller forums to disallow 3 character or less searches. Stresses their equipment, or if they rent space it jacks up their costs.

[jeantarrou]

Makes sense, and of course the site search through google worked!

[Frankenstein]

That is strange indeed. I don't think the minimum number of characters can be set in this version of vBulletin but I'm surprised that a 3 character search doesn't work. I'll look into this to see if it can be tweaked at all.

[Frankenstein]

Hmm it looks like the minimum characters is set to 2 but for some reason no 3 character search I try actually works. You can try using a wildcard, like ktm*, as that seems to work.

[Frankenstein]

Ok I think I found it - the database software has a different character limit for fulltext than what was set in the forum. I just changed it and the search index is rebuilding, so I'll test when that's done. Alternatively you can always use a wildcard on short search terms, such as ktm*.

[jeantarrou]

Thanks for the help guys.

Matt