Searching on abbreviations and anagrams

Bert · 09-12-2002, 12:38 PM

Is there any chance that uppercase abbreviations and anagrams of less than 3 letters can be allowed in search strings?

If I'd like to search on "C " or "OS", I'm not allowed at present as it's under the minimum word length. E.g. the string "OS" could be allowed but "os" (which might bring up "dos", "dross" and "fossil") could be disallowed.

My guess is that it is probably not possible as the search string is concatenated in the URL right? And URLs aren't case sensitive.

It's not a big deal anyhow.

Thanks, Bert.

jeremy · 09-12-2002, 01:17 PM

URL's are case sensitive (domains aren't), but that would considerably complicate the search process. I set the search minimum to three as I think that is a good balance between usability and a huge searchindex. At some point in the future I may lower this to 2, but that wouldn't be atleast until the new machine is installed. Thanks for the suggestion.

--jeremy