Author Topic: Could the search engine be made to search for specific phrases?  (Read 5204 times)

Offline KevinSig

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There have been times when I know exactly what I'm looking for, words used & the order they were in.

The search engine just gives search results of various threads that contain the same words.  If there's a way we could look up an exact match, I'd appreciate it.

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Re: Could the search engine be made to search for specific phrases?
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2013, 07:01:34 PM »
I could have sworn I had done this by putting quotes around a search term. 

Edit:  Although I still get search results full of hits that are completely irrelevant with none of my search terms in the posts listed.  (previously pointed out here

I just searched for "circumstances of your birth" with quotes, and got 3 hits that were relevant, and 22 that were worthless.
« Last Edit: May 18, 2013, 07:05:13 PM by Serack »
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Re: Could the search engine be made to search for specific phrases?
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2013, 12:37:19 AM »
Putting things in quotations helps, thanks.

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Could the search engine be made to search for specific phrases
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2015, 04:40:08 PM »
Is there another one after that, say for 5,000 posts?

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« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2016, 06:40:35 PM »
Is there any chance that we will soon get the forum Search function working again?