my beef with searching

the following things will return useless results on the forums

pig mission
pet lists
npc locations
monstrous eye
Toe of Gargamel

as you may have already guessed I'm getting to the point that you can't search 3 letter words. I find this an annoyance in most forums that have this limitation since 3 letter words comprise a great portion of the english language. If they want to disclude commonly used words like the, or, but, if, a, an, etc. then they could but to not search at all for 3 letter words?

I found a thread asking about pet types and the response was "use search, so many threads already" so I searched myself and found a million threads about "types".

I have added those words to the search index, and will try to re-create the search database late at night.

And done. Took roughly 90 minutes to update through all 120,000 posts.

Quote: Originally Posted by Inde

I too think the search function is severely gimped. I CANNOT find out where to get a collector axe with +15% damage while over 50% HP (may not even exist) and trying to search for it doesn't work. If I type Quote: "damage +15%" axe I get
Quote: Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.
The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : axe WTF?
Then, when I try Quote: "damage +15%" collector , I get

So true. This is why I have a hard time telling people to use the search. I have in a nice way on a few threads, but that was for obvious searches.

I too have had major trouble searching threads/posts out on topics. So instead of getting flamed and forcing me to fire back and starting a war I'll sit there and go through a zillion threads and posts to find an answer.

Another example: I want to find out about ele/nec's.... I type in E/N and it gives the too short, too common, etc message. I type in elemental necro and it gives all the threads that mention elementalists, and all the threads that mention necromancers... not just the threads that include them both.