[0 carbon]

It is impossible to search this forum for the phrase "your app is out of date".

I've heard of banning 4-letter words. Why 3-letter ones? In quoted phrases?

tOM

[inquiry]

0 carbon, on 2013-July-15, 17:13, said:

It is impossible to search this forum for the phrase "your app is out of date".

I've heard of banning 4-letter words. Why 3-letter ones? In quoted phrases?

tOM

The software we use for this forum does not allow three letter words or shorter in searches. Instead, use advance search on google with site:www.bridgebase.com/forums. Then you can search for short words or phrases with short words.

[mycroft]

And given that many searches here are based on:

NT
top
IMP
MP

(and for some of us: UI, AAS, ...)

That's very useful information. Still frustrating, though.

[barmar]

The problem is that adding all those short abbreviations to the index would make it huge.

And all those terms are used so frequently that they're not very useful in searches. They're practically like searching for "the".

[mycroft]

true, but I wanted to search for "weak NT" in my posts which I knew would drop it down to the 40 or so that I could eyeball search on - "weak" would be somewhat less discriminatory.

Yes, it's as bad as "the", but in phrase searches, "the" is still important, and it's annoying that it removes it. I realize, not your software, not your ability to really fix.