smijos on 21/6/2007 at 04:59
I keep getting this no matter what I search for
"The search term you specified (3) is under the minimum word length (2) and therefore will not be found. Please make this term longer. "
David on 21/6/2007 at 05:33
Could you please provide an example of things you are searching for?
Gingerbread Man on 21/6/2007 at 14:39
If you're using the number "3" as a search string, you won't get anywhere. Search terms have to be at least two characters.
D'Arcy on 21/6/2007 at 16:46
He did say 'no matter what I search for', so I guess he should be using something other than '3' as search string. Either that, or when he searches for '3' a second time is perceived by him as something different from the first search for '3' ;)
Gingerbread Man on 21/6/2007 at 19:25
Yeah, but if "3" shows up at all in the search query, that error will be returned. I just searched for 3 cheese factory and was told that (3) is too short a string.
I didn't even get partials for cheese and/or factory.
Briareos H on 21/6/2007 at 20:23
You can use exact text search to get around the restriction, by using quotes. For instance, search "thief 3" (with the quotes) then add any other keyword to refine the search.
However, no satisfying way to search for 3 cheese factory obviously :]
jtr7 on 22/6/2007 at 23:50
I got the same kind of message with and without quotes, for using the single digits 1 and 2 in my strings of search terms. The numbers were only two of at least five terms I used. An example of the different attempts would be: "Thief 1 2 into T3Ed", with and without quotes.
Briareos H on 24/6/2007 at 17:19
I tried
which brought some quite relevant results.
jtr7 on 24/6/2007 at 21:04
Yeah, I ended up getting what I wanted before I posted, but the quotes didn't change the error message. That's why I used that example. I would fully expect the message to say it didn't find anything, not tell me my search term was too small.
The search function seems to have been written in DromEd. :laff:
It works exactly as expected some times, and totally unexpected at others, with strange anamolies at random times. It works enough to keep using it, but when it doesn't--damn! I just use Google or Yahoo, etc., to get in the ballpark when that happens.
Try searching for "Jax"--a name that should pop up a few posts.
Rekrul on 6/7/2007 at 16:29
I'd like to add my $0.02...
It seems that the search will accept three letter words, but won't find any matches. I tried searching the Thief forums for both "fog" and "maw" and it told me there were no matches for either.
