With regard to programming the match for words, the length of the word is not important at all. And as can be seen by your store searches, they work fine - just fine.

I don't know if you're an apologist or what. There is no reason for the search to fail. Neither usability nor programming require it.

(Note - I am a programmer - it's what I do for a living.)

We usually discard noise words (such as the, and, etc.) except when they're quoted in a search - then you're expected to find them. Quoting doesn't help here.

---

Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)