Whenever I do a search in the Sitepoint forums I get a zillion answers, most of them not relevant. It appears that the search is an OR search on every word, like show records with keywords “PHPMYADMIN” OR “error” or “#1396”, when I really want a search that finds posts with all three of those words.
Is there any way to force an AND search?
[FONT=Verdana]Quoting the phrase seems to work, up to a point. “phpmyadmin error #1396” gives me
The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search:
“phpmyadmin error #1396”
Not altogether helpful. “error #1396” returned no results, and “phpmyadmin error” returned a long list, which at a quick glance did seem to refer to phpmyadmin errors, so it’s a start.
I tried it using a two-word phrase from a post I just made. Unquoted, I get 18 pages of results; quoted, I just get my recent post. Pretty good, I thought. :)[/FONT]
I got that same error about very common, too long, or too short. It would help if they explained what is too long. It wasn’t bad characters, since the other two searches worked for you.
I tried quoting some searches but was less successful.
From the advanced search page:
Forum searches by OR instead of AND
and there is no way of changing that as far as I can see.
@HAWK; can you tell us why searches can’t be done by AND ?
Because you’re more likely to hit relevancy on OR instead of AND; even if you have to wade through irrelevancy.
Use your example.
“phpmyadmin error #1396”
Searching with AND for those three terms would miss threads like “phpmyadmin error lists” (doesnt contain #1396), “phpmyadmin error 1396” (missing the #)… etc…etc…
Not specifically, no, although what Starlion says makes sense…