Author Topic: Three Letter Words (Read 317 times)

Sundiver · « **on:** August 05, 2005, 10:09:11 AM »

Why the search limit? I can think of alot of three letter subjects, like vox and yak and acm and alot of other subject headers I've seen.

FOGOLD · « **Reply #1 on:** August 05, 2005, 02:56:53 PM »

Lan. Ati. 3d. Fw. Bf.

There's millions. I get annoyed with this too! Good question:aok

FOGOLD · « **Reply #2 on:** August 05, 2005, 02:57:40 PM »

Skuzzy · « **Reply #3 on:** August 05, 2005, 03:36:15 PM »

The number of letters allowed in the search exponentially increases/decreases the search database size. With over 1.7 million posts, the database had gotten rather large (is that an understatement).
The search database is built based on this value, and a couple others.

At some point the server load is just horrific for searches due to the sheer size of the database.

FOGOLD · « **Reply #4 on:** August 06, 2005, 01:53:10 AM »

I knew there must be a good reason.

AWMac · « **Reply #5 on:** August 06, 2005, 06:14:08 AM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
The number of letters allowed in the search exponentially increases/decreases the search database size. With over 1.7 million posts, the database had gotten rather large (is that an understatement).
The search database is built based on this value, and a couple others.

At some point the server load is just horrific for searches due to the sheer size of the database.

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