Description of Setting the minimum word length for MySQL text search :
Setting the minimum word length for MySQL text search is a tutorial helping users to configure Mysql to set minimum word length for text searches on windows and unix systems. The default minimum search word length in Mysql is four. But for Mysql versions above 4.x.x. you can change the word length as you wish. So it is assumed that you use Mysql 4.x.x. The tutorial instructs first to configure windows for a minimum of 3 character word length and then configure unix for this and finally applying the settings. Now the search word length is set to 3 characters.