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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dismas" data-source="post: 1072818" data-attributes="member: 7195">As I understand it, the way the full text search on vbulletin works is that everytime you post each word over 3 letters and not in its noise (common) list is added to the search engines Word List, along with info to say where in a particular post the word occurs.When you run a search something along the lines of this happens:1) Search Engine finds the ID for each word in your search2) Search Engine search the Word List for all occurences of the Word ID and gets a list of locations3) Search Engine performs extra operations to for AND, OR, Exact Phrase, Proximity types of searches4) Results list is generated.As the words have been filtered out of the search engine when your initial post is added to the database the search will fail at stage one.WotC have recently moved over to Vb and people have complained that they cannot do searches for Elf, AC, HP etc. It is possible to modify the default settings of the search engine (details on the Vb website) but there will be a general performance hit on normal operations. The search tables for the WotC boards (running with the default settings) had over 1.8 million records after the first 2 weeks of posting.Pax</blockquote>