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Message: <blockquote data-quote="brainbone" data-source="post: 73783" data-attributes="member: 24130">I believe vBulletin uses MySQL for the database backend.In MySQL you set the system variable "ft_min_word_len" for the maximum word length to use when generating full text indexes.  It's likely that whomever configured the the MySQL server for this forum set the ft_min_word_len to 4.   They will need to set that to 3 (or even 2.  It does return better results, and doesn't consume that much resource), and re-build the full text indexes.Before rebuilding the indexes, the MySQL admin should also check the MySQL default stopwords to see if it's filtering out any words that could be valuable in searches related to MediaPortal, and create a custom stopwords file if necessary.(Note: I'm not very familiar with vBulletin, or its search function -- so take with appropriate sized serving of salt).</blockquote>