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Old Jul 2, 2018, 07:37 AM
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You need to use quotes because it searches for terms individually and is a union of all search terms. Searching for:

Version Sound

is searching for anything that contains both the word 'sound' and 'version', in any order.

Searching for:

"Version Sound"

is searching for explicitly the term "Version Sound" in that order, which significantly limits results.

Allowing non-quoted < 3 character searches would create problematic queries in that searching for 'i', 'iv', 'v', 'vi' would return results where the album contained the letter 'i', 'v', the letters 'iv' (ex: Live), 'vi' (ex: Video). That's a problem both for the user (too many results) and the database (returning so many results).

Use quotes or use google to do searching (ex: final fantasy iv site:vgmdb.net)
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