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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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Old Apr 11, 2004 | 12:51 PM
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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)
so
AA
AB
AC
...
A0
A1
A2
...
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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