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Old Apr 8, 2004 | 10:50 AM
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With all the acronyms that get used on these forums, how much of a performance hit would it be to decrease the minimum search term length? Right now it can be hard to find information on something that is always abreviated :-)
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Old Apr 8, 2004 | 01:51 PM
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I second this notion!
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Old Apr 8, 2004 | 02:54 PM
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I third it.
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Old Apr 8, 2004 | 03:21 PM
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I fourth it (that is if it's feasible to do w/out hurting system performance significantly)
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Old Apr 8, 2004 | 06:27 PM
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You mean search on terms with only two letters, like 'S1' or something like that?

I think it's set up right now for 4 or 5 letters.

I'll discuss, but we have discussed this a few times it's a problem but two letter searches could really get ugly.
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Old Apr 8, 2004 | 07:06 PM
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What about three letter searches? There are tons of 3 letter acronyms...FRC, LCA, STB, etc. I too have run into this search "problem".
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Old Apr 8, 2004 | 07:19 PM
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3 letter searches work for me.
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Old Apr 9, 2004 | 10:57 AM
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Let me talk to the guys and see if we can try three character searches.
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SysAdmin says that the 3 letter search feature is already enabled.

I can apparently add some 2 letter search terms, so please list ones that you think are key and I can manually add them... Like:

B1
T1
X1
S1
PP
AS
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Old Apr 12, 2004 | 04:15 AM
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TB-throttle body
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Old Apr 12, 2004 | 09:45 AM
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SS...
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Old Apr 14, 2004 | 05:56 PM
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VE please.
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Old Apr 15, 2004 | 02:28 PM
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O2 (as in O2 sensor)
HP (for searching HP Tuners)
Z1,Z2,Z3,Z4,Z5,Z6,Z7,Z8,Z9 (for zaino product searches)

hell just add all the different combos

There's only 26 letters, 10 numbers so 36x36 possibilities (1296)
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AA
AB
AC
...
A0
A1
A2
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Z9
hehehehe
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Old Apr 20, 2004 | 08:04 PM
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I'll go add a bunch in right now...
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Old Apr 21, 2004 | 02:09 PM
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Sorry I will work on it this afternoon
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Old Apr 21, 2004 | 02:24 PM
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I added all the ones suggested.
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