Search keywords

[Agent Foxtrot]

I'm not exactly sure if this needs attention or not, but I did a search for God of War II because I wanted to start a thread on the video game. The response:

Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.

The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : God, of, War, II :confused:

I know that this is the SDMB and we talk about God and war a lot, but is there either a way to lessen the number of words the search engine considers "common", or is there a different way I can word my search?

[USCDiver]

Words of 3 letters or less are not included in the search. Since all of your words fall under that category, your search won't work.

[Agent Foxtrot]

Words of 3 letters or less are not included in the search. Since all of your words fall under that category, your search won't work.Good point. Maybe decrease truncation to two-letter words?

[TubaDiva]

You need to find a way to word your search so that it uses more than 3 letters. There's just no way around that in our current circumstances.

[kunilou]

If we put the search terms in quotes -- "God of War II" -- would that still be considered three letter words?

[RedSwinglineOne]

Here (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=413102&highlight=Kratos) is the thread. I found it by searching for Kratos, the main character.