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Lame search function needs booleans!

POSTED BY: scrooge 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Anyone else get frustrated by the lame search function?

It uses 'OR' if you have more than one search term, there is no way of specifying 'AND' to narrow down search results.

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21-03-2008, 11:35
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Put a + directly before words for and
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defo yes .. ditto
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It does have booleans. Use + to include or - to force exclude.
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It does have booleans. Use + to include or - to force exclude.
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Thank jah128, he wrote it first I just backed him up ;)
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@ scrooge - help thread in my sig for more effective searching
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Get some of these useful links in the box on the side...

A concise collection of all the really useful links and guides would be much more useful than the scrappy 'What happened to HUKD!?!' box...
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I still find the search frustrating here, even after reading up about how to use it lol

imho if you need to read a tutorial on how to use what is a very basic and common function - it doesn't work, even if you can end up with the results you want.
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imho if you need to read a tutorial on how to use what is a very basic and common function - it doesn't work, even if you can end up with the results you want.
Think you've hit the nail on the head here, Starlet.... Yes, you can get the Search to work, but where else do you need to read a guide on how to use a Search box before it will work effectively?!
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I guess it's kind of like Google then.
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It does have booleans. Use + to include or - to force exclude.

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I still find the search frustrating here, even after reading up about how to use it lol

imho if you need to read a tutorial on how to use what is a very basic and common function - it doesn't work, even if you can end up with the results you want.
It would also be useful if searches had a sort facility. eg by date. Try searching on user posts, which seems to partially date sort. Looks like it sorts by the OPs thread date start? Not really sure of the problem. Sometimes its fine, sometimes its not.
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