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Old 13th Apr 2022, 1:52 pm   #12
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Default Re: Search problems (No of characters?)

The built-in forum search seems to be an OR search only, in that it will find threads containing any of the words you enter rather than all the words you enter. Keywords like AND don't have any effect.

If you want to search for more than one word go to Advanced Search and sort by relevancy, descending rather than by date. Posts containing all the words are more relevant so should appear first.

The limited documentation in the FAQ doesn't give any other options either, so that is probably just how it is and I doubt much can be done about it.

Today's database update should allow searching on three letter words such as Pye and AVO but won't help with anything else.

This is why we also have the Google search box. Google do website searching vastly better than any code here could, but it only covers sections that are visible when not logged in.
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