I just ran a search for Last Comic Standing. Actually I just searched for ‘last comic.’
The search, which took 51.48 seconds, told me, “The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search: last”
I’m assuming the word is too short, because “very common” is a capability this board doesn’t have, right?
I’ve asked in the past why we don’t allow three letter word searches and just omit the common ones like “the,” and was always told “too hard!”
But now we omit common four letter words? Or what?
Common four letter words have been disallowed by the search engine for several years, at least.
It’s possible that more words have recently been added to the “common” list.
In the past I’ve wondered why we can’t search for three letter words and was told there are too many and you can’t just rule out the common ones. So, we can’t search for something like HIV.
But now it seems they can, and do have a list of common words they can eliminate from searches.
