Search (still) non-functional

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Hi, I'm sure I've read about this before, and would be happy to bump any previous thread on the subject - searching doesn't work for me, and others have reported the same, this needs to be fixed if possible please.

I have tried to search on many things, with few parameters as well as no parameters other than keyword, and I have no results each time.

Specifically I searched 'SSD' which I'm sure I've seen plenty of times, but it returned no results with that as the only filter.
 
You can't search things with 3 letters or less.
Here is a guide on searching GTPlanet:
https://www.gtplanet.net/faq/

Two search engines are availabe to search within GTPlanet. The Google Site Search is best for most general queries: it searches all sections of the website, including the News and Guides sections. The advanced search searches only within the forum but allows you to construct more specific queries. In addition to the advanced search tools, you can also use many operators to further manipulate the results:

+ A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in each row that is returned.
- A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be present in any of the rows that are returned.
By default (when neither + nor – is specified) the word is optional, but posts that contain it are rated higher.
~ A leading tilde acts as a negation operator, causing the word’s contribution to the row’s relevance to be negative. This is useful for marking “noise” words. A row containing such a word is rated lower than others, but is not excluded altogether, as it would be with the – operator.
* The asterisk serves as the truncation operator. Unlike the other operators, it should be appended to the word to be affected.
” A phrase that is enclosed within double quote (‘”’) characters matches only posts that contain the phrase literally, as it was typed. For example, “test phrase” does not match “test, phrase”.
Some common words (such as “and”, “the”, “that”, etc.) are ignored in searches.
Keywords can be no shorter than 3 characters and no longer than 20 characters in length.
 
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As mentioned by Schwartz, forum searches are limited to keywords with a minimum of three four characters. For more help on searching the site, take a look at this entry in the FAQ.

I hope to bring improvements to the forum search later this year.
 
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Fair enough... Is this to avoid locking the database with queries that are too ambiguous? Are the tables properly indexed? What brand of DB is this site using? DB2 > SQL (performance wise, from my experience, which isn't web, but chyeah).

So really, it’s a '4' letter minimum, because my '3' letter term of "SSD" did not return any results, how would one search for SSD then?
 
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Mmm, true, thanks for that suggestion, should've thought of that as I've been using Google for that on other sites for like, pfft 5-10 years, so that's an obvious work around.

Still, integration would be nicer.
 
The search link is still at the top right (in the yellow box.) The Google search box is on the home page.
 
Fair enough... Is this to avoid locking the database with queries that are too ambiguous? Are the tables properly indexed? What brand of DB is this site using? DB2 > SQL (performance wise, from my experience, which isn't web, but chyeah).

So really, it’s a '4' letter minimum, because my '3' letter term of "SSD" did not return any results, how would one search for SSD then?
Yes, sorry, I meant a 4-letter minimum.

The forum search is powered by MySQL's (I'm actually using MariaDB here instead of MySQL) full-text functionality, hence the reason it's so poor.
 
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