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Title: Could the search engine be made to search for specific phrases?
Post by: KevinSig on May 18, 2013, 03:33:01 PM

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.

Title: Re: Could the search engine be made to search for specific phrases?
Post by: Serack 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 (http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,31642.0.html)

I just searched for "circumstances of your birth" with quotes, and got 3 hits that were relevant, and 22 that were worthless.

Title: Re: Could the search engine be made to search for specific phrases?
Post by: KevinSig on May 20, 2013, 12:37:19 AM

Putting things in quotations helps, thanks.

Title: Could the search engine be made to search for specific phrases
Post by: SKndstorm on August 30, 2015, 04:40:08 PM

Is there another one after that, say for 5,000 posts?

Title: Could the search engine be made to search for specific phrases
Post by: Cgoldageh on March 07, 2016, 06:40:35 PM

Is there any chance that we will soon get the forum Search function working again?