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Posted July 2, 200915 yr Can we add a option to match exact phrase? Its a pain when searching for something to see a bunch of stuff that has one or two words of the phrase even though its not what we were searching for.
July 2, 200915 yr Google.Com site:domain.name.here "exact phrase" :D Of course, not a replacement for what you're asking for (and it would definitely be nice to have 'exact phrase' available). Still, it's an option to tide us over.
July 3, 200915 yr Yes, if you wrap your text in double quotes it should search for that exact phrase.
July 4, 200915 yr Author maybe thats all well and good for me but what about the common end user? Most people dont know that? would it be that difficult to add this feature? Most all other bb scripts have this feature...why cant we have it?
July 6, 200915 yr To my knowledge must other BB scripts work the same way when using MySQL fulltext searching (which nearly all do)... It's how mysql processes the search. A plus sign + indicates the word must be included, a minus sign - indicates the word should not be included, and double quotes around the term mean "exact search". Even google searches work this way.
July 6, 200915 yr We used to have an option on the search page to explain those things like double quotes, + & -, but it seems to be gone now. Maybe restoring that would help folks who aren't aware of this?
July 14, 200915 yr [quote name='bfarber' date='07 July 2009 - 01:27 AM' timestamp='1246922849' post='1821380'] If that's all that's needed, I'd be fine with adding that back in. Please do :) There is many users out there that don't know this, and is requesting this as a "new" future.
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