# Search no longer works with 3 letter search terms?

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/search-no-longer-works-with-3-letter-search-terms/73936>\
**Category:** Network Information\
**Created:** [September 23, 2009, 11:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/search-no-longer-works-with-3-letter-search-terms/73936 "2009-09-23T11:55:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 11:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/search-no-longer-works-with-3-letter-search-terms/73936/1 "2009-09-23T11:55:31Z")

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Search for “woot” returns lots of hits.

Search for “off” returns nothing.

I figured this out while trying to find the “All that is man” thread and I kept getting zero results.

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**Author:** ![ieatpaint](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ieatpaint/32/7311_2.png) [@ieatpaint](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ieatpaint)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/search-no-longer-works-with-3-letter-search-terms/73936/2 "2009-09-23T12:06:33Z")

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honda-tech does this too, pretty frustrating.

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**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/search-no-longer-works-with-3-letter-search-terms/73936/3 "2009-09-23T12:11:19Z")

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As a software guy I understand why it’s done on big sites (way too large query sets killing the database), but NYSpeed is hardly that big and when the site was hosted on a decent host search speed was never an issue. I’m hoping this was just an overlooked setting and not done on purpose.

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**Author:** ![SnowboardinWNY](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/snowboardinwny/32/5182_2.png) [@SnowboardinWNY](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SnowboardinWNY)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/search-no-longer-works-with-3-letter-search-terms/73936/4 "2009-09-23T12:46:01Z")

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Usually you can place \* on the ends of the words and it will still work, but not in this case. example: _off_

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**Author:** ![travisn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/travisn/32/5046_2.png) [@travisn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/travisn)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/search-no-longer-works-with-3-letter-search-terms/73936/5 "2009-09-23T12:54:55Z")

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yea, I searched for the all that is man thread and came up with zero results. manual searching ftl. I almost made a new thread because I couldnt find it.