2 letter searching

[moyashi]

this is a vB bug ... you can't search for anything less than 3 characters ....
tried looking for CD ... doh ... now what do I do?

I wonder if vB ever updated this or ... I'm pretty positive (90%+) that there is a hack that allows this.

[griffman]

The minimum search length is controllable in the admin panel. I'll set it to two, but if performance suffers too much, I'll be switching it back.

FYI, the reason two to three letters makes a difference in performance is that the size of the index files created grows tremendously. There are something like 20ish two-letter words, and many of those are in the "most used" category (to, in, is, of, if, etc.). These are terms that nobody would generally search on, so I chose to leave them out to try to gain some extra speed in searching.

-rob.