Better way to search the forum?

[MrSurly]

Wanted to come to the forum to see posts about bluetooth, since that's my current development interest.

So, I searched for "BLE", and was greeted with "The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: ble. You must specify at least one word to search for. Each word must consist of at least 3 characters and must not contain more than 14 characters excluding wildcards." I tried "bluetooth"; same result.

As it is the search isn't very useful, and there are a lot of pages of posts to sift through.

Could the "too common" feature of the search be disabled?

Thanks.

[ESP_igrr]

I'm usually using Google with site:esp32.com when I need to find something here. Even for not common words, it works much better than the forum search engine.

[ESP_Sprite]

FWIW, I also have requested the common words filter to be turned off. Agree with iggr though: the phpbb search function in general is spotty at best, using an external search engine tends to give better results.

[ESP_Sprite]

Okay, seems that works, looking for 'BLE' gives hits now. (Ironically, with this post being the top one.)