3 letter word restrictions??? Yucky!!!

[Elgin Clock]

As brought up by Frank(Aflak) in the latest car thread, and being a problem I have run into before as well, I was wondering if you could change the letter limit in the "search" area to include 3 letter words or three digit numbers. I wanted to do a search for threads mentioning the number 237 (my team's number) and ran into a dead end. I think I understand the reasoning behind this way you approached and opted to program the search but It was really annoying when It kept giving me an error message every time I searched for 237. Arghh!!

If you could allow 1, 2, or 3 character searches only when those characters are numbers that would help out a lot. I doubt that someone will want to search for all threads that have say, the word, "I" or "Be" or "the" in them, but a person might be inclined to search for threads which include the team number like "1" or "27" or "237" in my case for instance. Even if they got a result for a discussion like a thread that had a sentence with the phrase, "...and 27 people came to this event..." It would still be no problem to weed through the bad search results.

It's easier to weed through results then have no information to search through at all!!!