[Moving2HK]

Hi! How can search for certain word combinations, e.g. "weekend away" such that only threads are shown where "weekend away" is mentioned and not all threads with "weekend" and/or "away". Thanks.

[rani]

type type "weekend away" into the search box.

Did that not work?

Try it on http://www.geoexpat.com/forum/search.php

[Moving2HK]

Nope doesn't work.

[KnowItAll]

Try this without the quotes "weekend and away" -- it should work. I fixed a permission issue where we had not allowed this type of search for non-admins.

[KnowItAll]

Just tested out "fringe and chicago" and that brought up the right threads. You might want to wait a little bit for the "weekand and away" search as searches get cached for a few hours (12-24) and try some other creative searches.

[KnowItAll]

AND, NOT and OR work.

Searches can include all combinations "(weekand and away) not bangkok"

[KnowItAll]

A better example might be

"(weekend and away) not shenzhen"
"weekend and away and shenzhen"

[Moving2HK]

Hey. Sorry for the trouble. But I just want to avoid double postings etc.

So, new example... I was searching for

German and TV

The search result is that I also get threads in which only "German" is mentioned.

Is there a solution? Thanks!!

[KnowItAll]

Heh .. you're really picking the weakest links of the search function -- TV unfortunately does not work too well, as our database tends to ignore words with less than three characters.

[discobay]

Aha another case of modern search algorithms sacrificing completeness for the sake of performance.