server/AyaNova/biz/Search.cs

@@ -568,6 +568,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.Biz
             //Get stopwords and CJKIndex flag value
             LocaleWordBreakingData LocaleSearchData = GetLocaleSearchData(localeId);
             int MAXWORDLENGTH = 255;
+            int MINWORDLENGTH = 2;//A word isn't a word unless it's got at least two characters in it
             StringBuilder sbResults = new StringBuilder();
             //List to temporarily hold parsed words
             //used to easily ensure unique words only
@@ -824,10 +825,15 @@ namespace AyaNova.Biz
             //from the word list
             foreach (string s in tempParsedWords)
             {
-                //Add only non stopwords
-                if (!LocaleSearchData.StopWords.Contains(s))
+                //Filter out short words if we are breaking for indexing
+                //but keep them if they are part of a wildcard search phrase
+                if (s.Length > MINWORDLENGTH || (KeepWildCards && s.Contains('%')))
                 {
-                    ReturnList.Add(s);
+                    //Add only non stopwords
+                    if (!LocaleSearchData.StopWords.Contains(s))
+                    {
+                        ReturnList.Add(s);
+                    }
                 }
             }