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Nov 3, 2003 | 07:46 PM

HD4mula

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Ridiculous search function...

I need to search for a "LFP fan" and it ask for a minimum 4 letter word. How can I make that happen??

Nonsense...

Nov 3, 2003 | 08:22 PM

01 XLT Sport

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Does this help:

LFP fan

Nov 3, 2003 | 08:23 PM

grinomyte

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i too have ben baffled by this restriction, whats the deal?

Nov 3, 2003 | 09:27 PM

HD4mula

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Quote:

Originally posted by 01 XLT Sport
Does this help:

LFP fan

No it doesn't. I bought it already. I was looking for install tips and comments. Thanks anyway.

Nov 4, 2003 | 09:25 AM

Brian Baskin

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The restriction is in place on almost all forums, it reduces the number of huge search results on common words. The way around it is to pad it out to 4+ characters with wildcards. ie, LFP* fan*

Nov 17, 2003 | 06:07 PM

Silver_2000

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The search index for a site this large is in the 5 gig range I think.

If you include 3 character words it goes exponentially higher

See Steves reply here for why LFP* may not work

https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...hreadid=135222

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