Search Function fails

[a1s (OP)]

I can kind of see why it would ignore words like "aurora", "space" or "and". But the search function ignores all of these:

Attack
Combat
Empire
Engine
Fast
Fighter (but not Craft or Gunboat)
Ground
Missile
NPR
Sensor

and more (such as, for example, multiples of the words, where they are applicable)!
That makes the search function unusable for half of the most common questions.

[Father Tim]

Alas, neither Steve nor Erik programmed the search function and as such we are pretty much stuck with what's available for PHP.  I recommend using Google and restricting the search to "Search within a site or domain:" aurora.pentarch.org

[Erik L]

Alas, neither Steve nor Erik programmed the search function and as such we are pretty much stuck with what's available for PHP.  I recommend using Google and restricting the search to "Search within a site or domain:" aurora.pentarch.org

Very true. Through maintaining this site and adding mods, I've learned a bit about PHP, but I am a windows client/server database programmer by trade. There are some tweaks I can make to the configuration to the search functions, and I've made a couple. Please let me know if it improves or not.