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mgr1001 said:
Hi,
Anyone know how to filter searches so that the results show only those threads that contain all the search words, and in the specific order given?
Miker
Not sure about specific order . . . but generally, if you put a "+" sign in front a search word it is required in the search. 3 works with a "+" in front of them would give you all three words as must include.
"-" minus sign in front of a word means the opposite. search result does not include.
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mgr1001 said:
Hi,
Anyone know how to filter searches so that the results show only those threads that contain all the search words, and in the specific order given?
Miker
mgr1001,
in the post below red italics are all the characters entered in the search window.
under the "search" function you can select "advanced search." this brings up a screen with more options. you can restrict your search to specific forums or users. you can also use boolean operators to refine your search. for instance, you can type k75 AND motorcycle and get 53 THREADS returned. if you select "posts" instead of "threads" (down in the lower left of the "advanced search" screen) and search for k75 AND motorcycle you will get 67 POSTS returned to you. make sure the AND is capitalized, thats how the search engine knows that it is an operator word, and not a word to be sought.
if you search for "k75 motorcycle" you get only ONE thread returned to you. note that there is a set of quotes in my example - if you put the search term in quotation marks, you get the EXACT mutli-word string returned to you. i think this is what you are looking for.
as mentioned above, you can also tell the machine to omit results containing specific words. so if you search for k75 motorcycle -bike then it doesnt show you all the results of the 53 threads that have the world "bike" in them - it returns only 22 threads.
hope this helps. (this all works on google as well.)
