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@Velocio
I think it might be length of words. IRO is 3 letters, bar is 3 letters.
You can search for bar tape by making it longer than 3 letters, just quote it "bar tape".
IRO is a problem though. MySql (the database engine) doesn't index three letter words by default, and also includes a stopword list of common words in English that it won't index: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/fulltext-stopwords.html
I'll look into how to re-configure the engine to index three word things.
An alternative though is to have people tag threads. Because the tag cloud on the search page will show three letter words and be searchable... so that works.