Search Function not finding specific keyword

opr

It doesn't seem to be working.

Opr

BuffyBot

Working fine for me - are you getting a specific error message?

opr

Its working fine via the google search option on the front page but if I try to search a forum or thread via boards I just get no results.

Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.

Opr

opr

Seems to be fine now thanks.

Opr

opr

I still seem to be having problems.

I was looking to find the thread relating to the film "A Serious Man".

I did a search in films and returned no results and I did just a search of serious to which no results are returned. I even tried searching the whole site and I get nothing ?

I eventually just used the google search which worked.

Opr

Gordon

Strange, that search word 'serious' doesn't work, I'll move this over to the development forum. The other words, 'a' and 'man' wont be searched unfortunately as our search tool doesn't yet allow for such searches.

Conor

MySQL has a built-in set of "stop words" which it doesn't let you query because they're too common. The default list is here.

vBulletin threw out "a" and "man" because they're too short and "serious" was rejected by MySQL for being a stop word. You can't search for phrases like "a serious man" because MySQL doesn't index text in a way which supports that.

The search system is due to be replaced with something more capable as soon as we have time to do so.