diff --git a/earwigbot/wiki/copyvios/parsers.py b/earwigbot/wiki/copyvios/parsers.py
index e9ac415..89e1e8f 100644
--- a/earwigbot/wiki/copyvios/parsers.py
+++ b/earwigbot/wiki/copyvios/parsers.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ class ArticleTextParser(BaseTextParser):
         self.clean = clean.replace("\n\n", "\n").strip()
         return self.clean
 
-    def chunk(self, nltk_dir, max_chunks, max_query=256):
+    def chunk(self, nltk_dir, max_chunks, min_query=8, max_query=128):
         """Convert the clean article text into a list of web-searchable chunks.
 
         No greater than *max_chunks* will be returned. Each chunk will only be
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ class ArticleTextParser(BaseTextParser):
 
         sentences = []
         for sentence in tokenizer.tokenize(self.clean):
+            if len(sentence) < min_query:
+                continue
             if len(sentence) > max_query:
                 words = sentence.split()
                 while len(" ".join(words)) > max_query:
diff --git a/earwigbot/wiki/copyvios/search.py b/earwigbot/wiki/copyvios/search.py
index 2a875cc..7570294 100644
--- a/earwigbot/wiki/copyvios/search.py
+++ b/earwigbot/wiki/copyvios/search.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ class YahooBOSSSearchEngine(BaseSearchEngine):
             "oauth_nonce": oauth.generate_nonce(),
             "oauth_timestamp": oauth.Request.make_timestamp(),
             "oauth_consumer_key": consumer.key,
-            "q": quote_plus('"' + query.encode("utf8") + '"'),
+            "q": quote_plus(query.encode("utf8")),
             "type": "html,text",
             "format": "json",
         }