Searching the forum for short words

This might be a way of getting it to work, but some index size testing would be needed:

(from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-fine-tuning.html)

"If you want to change the set of characters that are considered word characters, you can do so in two ways. Suppose that you want to treat the hyphen character ('-') as a word character. Use either of these methods:

• Modify the MySQL source: In myisam/ftdefs.h, see the true_word_char() and misc_word_char() macros. Add '-' to one of those macros and recompile MySQL.
  

• Modify a character set file: This requires no recompilation. The true_word_char() macro uses a “character type” table to distinguish letters and numbers from other characters. . You can edit the contents in one of the character set XML files to specify that '-' is a “letter.” Then use the given character set for your FULLTEXT indexes.

        After making the modification, you must rebuild the indexes             for each table that contains any FULLTEXT             indexes."