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Old 10-03-2007, 01:39 AM
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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.
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Old 10-03-2007, 06:02 PM
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type type "weekend away" into the search box.

Did that not work?

Try it on http://www.geoexpat.com/forum/search.php
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Old 12-03-2007, 11:38 PM
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Nope

Nope doesn't work.
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Old 12-03-2007, 11:48 PM
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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.
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Old 12-03-2007, 11:52 PM
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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.
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Old 13-03-2007, 12:04 AM
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AND, NOT and OR work.

Searches can include all combinations "(weekand and away) not bangkok"
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Old 13-03-2007, 12:05 AM
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A better example might be

"(weekend and away) not shenzhen"
"weekend and away and shenzhen"
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Old 14-03-2007, 10:21 PM
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Hey

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!!
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Old 14-03-2007, 10:46 PM
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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.
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Aha another case of modern search algorithms sacrificing completeness for the sake of performance.
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