I was trying to search for "Shared IP Address" the other day, and received the following message/error:


The search term you specified (ip) is under the minimum word length (3) and therefore will not be found. Please make this term longer.
If this term contains a wildcard, please make this term more specific.


I also typed in "Internet Protocol" instead of "IP" but received very few matches, as most people tend to use just the term "IP."

Is this a default setting on vBulletin's software? - Or is there some reason why a minimum 3 character phrase search has been set?

You can put the number down to 2 character limit, but you have to reindex the entire board...

Which on this site, can take hours :D


Its just how vB does its searching, and why its so fast, it doesn't actually search posts, it has a search index with words in it..

The smallest word is 3 characters long....

Just put the plus sign between words, but there might be better ways?