"Search terms too common"

[ST240]

I find myself with the search often being frustrating and somewhat useless, as such terms as "knock", "sensor" and others which are useful often receive the "search terms too common" error and you get nothing. If those terms are so "common" as it's saying, which I doubt they are, it would be more useful to have pages and pages of your results, rather than nothing.

This leaves you having to go thru the forums page by page, using the browser's built in search function.

Can this be rectified?

Thanks,

[Matt]

I agree with this. Looked up in the search settings and you can remove the 'common' word disable setting. There was a 5% common words (Active over 100 posts on the board) so I've change that to 0% now

[unex]

sometimes still getting the same error

[Matt]

use 'AND' between terms to narrow them down further

[unex]

yes, I know. But for example if you are searching one word it does not help. I thought that you disabled that error message, and as somebody already said its better to have too much result than none.
But if there is no such option to disable this, dont waste your time for such small thing

[enohand]

typically searching forums with 1 word is not a good process.

if you need to search for 1 word, make sure it is over 5 characters/

or you could try for example if looking for AEM

search using *AEM*

[djstatic]

Just use Google's search (apparently they're pretty good at it )

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