min search term

[Melon]

can you make min search length from 4 to 3?

heres example of problem i had was searching for

"egg laying substrate"

this was returned.

The search term you specified (egg) is under the minimum word length (4) and therefore will not be found. Please make this term longer.

[Brat]

Yeah that annoys me too.. as lots of things are abbreviated to 3 letters.

Leo
BCI
ETB
GTP

Etc..

[mrfluff]

Originally Posted by Brat

Yeah that annoys me too.. as lots of things are abbreviated to 3 letters.

Leo
BCI
ETB
GTP

Etc..

Yes I have tried searching for 'viv' and 'boa' before

Sooooooo annoying

[SSamm]

yeah does my head in!!!

aswell, in posts, people wont put the full names, so abreviations are what you have to search

[t-bo]

There have been lots of threads on this before... it comes down to the massive server loads involved with searching every 3 letter word out of the 1.5 millions posts made and stored in the database.

To resolve the problem I put the google search box on the homepage of RFUK, make sire you click the option just to search the site and you will be able to use this to search for 3 letter words

[Melon]

i understand the server load. due to doing server management + web software developing every day! but each search will take milliseconds not enough for people to notice. There may be a addon for this forum where they have improved the search queries and improved times etc.

It maybe worth doing a trial run? say for a month then access server logs and see performance difference to previous month.

[Snakes r grreat]

We have search.

[Dork Knight]

This may also work for some, bookmark the following and then call upon the bookmark to search;

javascript:var s=escape(prompt(%22Search terms%22).replace(/ /, %22+%22));if (s) window.location.href=%22http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22 + s + %22+site%3Awww.reptileforums.co.uk%22;