I don't see how it can be intentional behavior. There is more than one kind of bug. A functional bug is different than a code bug, but it's still a bug. The error path defined (the search term you specified is too short) is clearly intended for single word searches, and the functionality was never checked properly and planned properly for multi-word searches - or it was missed in testing. The way the offered hack handles it is the way pretty much every search engine I know of handles it.

I agree its very poor however I still believe that was the general idea when they made this, I'm sure with the next release they will fix this, as long as enough interest is shown here

Distance

They built all the phrases correctly, but somewhere along the way, someone "forgot".

this is seriously annoying to say the very least, as someone with not a lot of knoledge with php and html i try to search for options using the search facilty or search if i have problems within vbulletin to see if others have had similar problems as i, and maybe come up with a solution, thus eliminating the need for me to make a new post and hoping someone will answer it.

would it not be simpilar to install dismounted's system to stop this or modify the search options in the admincp

search index minimum word length = 2??

just a thought

On my own board I changed the Minimal Letters to 1 because we have a select few threads i have marked with a "*" in front of the thread title ...

I then do a search for "*" in thread titles only and NOTHING !!!!

So im left to combing all my threads and finding them ,

BTW i turned the min to 3 ,

I hate the seach on this site , no matter what you search for the first page is the most resent posts on all the big threads , not to mention the fact that you have to leave out Key words Like

if and the

And any abbr......

AME DDD

To tell you guys the truth , I open google and do a search like this

vbulletin.org AME

and it finds it

the search feature here is almost worthless to me

Just my .02
DM