If you badly need to search for a thread where the keyword is under 3 letters (for exmple tmi, pms or whatever) use the wildcard in front of it, and it works as a 4th character.
Use only in extreme need, god knows the hamsters need their rest. 
Hey Genius,
Did you actually try this little trick before posting this? Just wondering because, like, it doesn’t work. 
Haj
What do you mean by wildcard?
Hmm. i used to try that but it didn’t do the trick on various boards but I might give it another try. You might post this in the about this message board forum cause lots of people need search hints.
A wildcard is a “*” attached to the end of a series of characters.
For example, do a seach with “but*” without the quotes. The search engine will return every post (or thread) with a word that starts with “but” (butt, butane) but not, as Iteki claims, ones with less than four letters.
Haj
It definitely does not work. I tried it a couple weeks ago when the idea ocurred to me, as well. The wildcard (*) must match one or more non-whitespace characters, so searching for “*bet” will return “Tibet” or “alphabet” but not “bet” or " bet".
By wildcard I believe he’s referring to the Takis-A virus.
Sorry, could you explain a little more?
My god! Ninety nine out of a hundred posters are going to die!
… hey, wonder what would happen if Clogboy became an Ace?
Doh, looking more closely, Haj is right 
What it was returning was for example, TMI) and TMI: in thread titles…
Shoulda known I wasn’t a genuis. While it does have a limited functionality it is not the silver bullet I thought. Sorry all.
I won’t explain but [color=“blue”]Google can explain.[/color]
I’ve done it before for “WTC” and it’s worked. Don’t recall if I put the wildcard before or after, or both.
Um, okay. Still not really any the wiser, but understand it was a play on words of some kind.
Crusoe: Wildcards was a series of books concerning super-hero type folks.
All of the super-powers these folks developed were a result of an alien bio-chemical weapon, the “Takis-A Virus.”
It was indeed a play on words by raisinbread, but I think I missed the joke, as well.
[sub]Or else it just wasn’t all that funny.[/sub]
Thanks, Skeezix. I think I may have read one of those, a long time ago.