Can't use the word color as a search term

[GroovyBee]

When I use color in a search term I get the following error :-

 

"The following search terms are not allowed and were removed from your query: color"

 

However, I can use the word colour and it finds entries, just not the ones I'm looking for .

[SeaGtGruff]

When I use color in a search term I get the following error :-

 

"The following search terms are not allowed and were removed from your query: color"

 

However, I can use the word colour and it finds entries, just not the ones I'm looking for .

I think it must be because "color" can be part of the rich text formatting command words? So you'd get potentially every post as a match?

 

However, if you put quotes around it, you can search for it... "color"

 

Michael

[Albert]

There are various common "stop words" that search engines use to weed out words that might exist in a large number of results. Here's a common list I just found:

 

a, able, about, across, after, all, almost, also, am, among, an, and, any, are, as, at, be, because, been, but, by, can, cannot, could, dear, did, do, does, either, else, ever, every, for, from, get, got, had, has, have, he, her, hers, him, his, how, however, i, if, in, into, is, it, its, just, least, let, like, likely, may, me, might, most, must, my, neither, no, nor, not, of, off, often, on, only, or, other, our, own, rather, said, say, says, she, should, since, so, some, than, that, the, their, them, then, there, these, they, this, tis, to, too, twas, us, wants, was, we, were, what, when, where, which, while, who, whom, why, will, with, would, yet, you, your

When I update the forum software to 3.2 I can fix this--will have to dig around as the forum software must have this list embedded in it somewhere. Not sure why "color" is in the list.

 

..Al