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I'm growing increasingly frustrated with the 3 character limit for searches...
I'm sure there's a good reason for it, I'm guessing if someone searched for "the" it'd bring up too many results, putting a burden on the server, but seriously, there are a LOT of 3 letter search terms I'd like to find... The search "new loc lpc 22x red diy kit" for a made-up example, returns no results because all the search terms are too short.
Most of the things I end up trying to search for are eaten by the search filter, I can't even begin to name all the things I've wanted to look for but have been forced to use google's site search (which is severely un-indexed), but it's really common laser type words like "650", "532", "blu ray", etc. I was trying to find info on a specific DVD drive today but soon realized any single term I could enter would be filtered "LG DVD RW GSA 20N" is filtered because all the terms are too short, yet virtually no one has used "GSA20N" as the model number because that'd be incorrect.
I'm sure there's a good reason for it, I'm guessing if someone searched for "the" it'd bring up too many results, putting a burden on the server, but seriously, there are a LOT of 3 letter search terms I'd like to find... The search "new loc lpc 22x red diy kit" for a made-up example, returns no results because all the search terms are too short.
Most of the things I end up trying to search for are eaten by the search filter, I can't even begin to name all the things I've wanted to look for but have been forced to use google's site search (which is severely un-indexed), but it's really common laser type words like "650", "532", "blu ray", etc. I was trying to find info on a specific DVD drive today but soon realized any single term I could enter would be filtered "LG DVD RW GSA 20N" is filtered because all the terms are too short, yet virtually no one has used "GSA20N" as the model number because that'd be incorrect.