# Search failure
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-failure/6113
**Category:** Off-Topic
**Created:** [January 22, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-failure/6113 "2008-01-22T01:19:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-failure/6113/1 "2008-01-22T01:19:42Z")
Anyone know why this forum's search for 'num' fails to find anything, inc. the message [[F] Two $num failures](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/5734/1) containing that string?
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### Author:  [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 6:12am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-failure/6113/2 "2008-01-23T06:12:36Z")
> [@chrisjj](#):
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> ... Anyone know why this forum's search for 'num' fails to find anything, ...
Hmm, I think the forum search engine is not configured to use search strings smaller than 4 characters? I often struggle with this restriction too, e. g. search for 'BPM'.
DD.20080123.0813.CET
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### Author:  [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2008, 10:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/search-failure/6113/3 "2008-01-23T10:04:25Z")
Indeed 'add' fails too. I wonder what's the point of that?