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Old 15-11-2017, 18:40   #4
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Re: Why do forums limit searches?

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter View Post
Does searching use up a lot of resources or something?
Yes, it can do.

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Originally Posted by Taf View Post
I dislike the fact that some words are excluded from searches as they are "too short or common".
The minimum word length here is 3.
The system uses MySQL fulltext searching, which has a built in "ignore" list.
We actually use a slightly custom list (attached), based on the default list, I dont remember the difference.
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