(Brion Vibber <vibber(a)aludra.usc.edu>)u>):
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
Yeah, the issues are intertwined a bit. BTW, I
compiled MySQL on the
wikipedia server with a minimum word length of 2, so "XP" works fine.
Still doesn't help with "vitamin E" or "C sharp"...
Any reason we can't take it down to 1?
Two problems I can see: first, "A" and "I" clearly can't have
meaningful indexes, so even if we make "Vitamin C" searchable, it
won't work for "Vitamin A", causing confusion. Also, single
letters often appear in articles as links (see list of diseases,
for example) or at outline labels, etc., and would further make
single-letter searches less meaningful.
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