Search 3 letter phrases?

[Laredo]

What is the reason for not being able to search 3-character phrases? There are times I have wanted to look for things like E85, irs, etc.

[MikeFleming]

Add an asterick to the phrase to make 4 characters;

"E*85 "irs*", etc.

That's part of the vB software - a default setting. The primary reasons are index space and the totally irrelevant results when searching too small a string. Try searching "mr" on Google and see how many hits you get

Today's Google result: "About 554,000,000 results (0.27 seconds)"
Bing returned only "222,000,000 results"

[BrianM]

Best way I have found to search three letter phrases on forums like this is with Google using the following format. Examples is for "oil" and "e85". This works for any search term no matter length or site. Make sure there is a space between search term(s) and site and then no spaces for everything else. Also drop the http:// from the site location

oil site:www.svocop.com (http://www.scocop.com)

e85 site:www.svocop.com (http://www.svocop.com)

[Sick Puppy]

Thanks for the tip Brian.

Paul