AND function in the search

fob

I think I'm probably missing something that's right in front of my nose but is there an AND operator that can be used in a search? i.e. all search terms are present.

There seems to be a NOT and an OR (and others) but I've tried + and AND to no avail; they just double the number of returned hits.

stickyfiddle

I don't think so. I just use google:

site:thefretboard.co.uk "Gibson" AND "Goldtop" 

..or whatever

digitalscream

There is. Click the "Adv Search" to get this:

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/search?Search=test&tar=srch

Where it says "Phrase Match", choose "All" from the dropdown. Admittedly it's not too intuitive, but that's Vanilla for you.

EricTheWeary

stickyfiddle said:

I don't think so. I just use google:

site:thefretboard.co.uk "Gibson" AND "Goldtop" 

..or whatever

This, by far easier and more accurate than using the site's own search function. 

digitalscream

EricTheWeary said:

stickyfiddle said:

I don't think so. I just use google:

site:thefretboard.co.uk "Gibson" AND "Goldtop" 

..or whatever

This, by far easier and more accurate than using the site's own search function. 

What you can't do with Google is sorting or limiting the search to a specific set of categories (eg if you just want to search the classifieds), which our search function can do.

EricTheWeary

digitalscream said:

EricTheWeary said:

stickyfiddle said:

I don't think so. I just use google:

site:thefretboard.co.uk "Gibson" AND "Goldtop" 

..or whatever

This, by far easier and more accurate than using the site's own search function. 

What you can't do with Google is sorting or limiting the search to a specific set of categories (eg if you just want to search the classifieds), which our search function can do.

Ahh, not sure I've ever tried. Maybe I'll try it this weekend when I'm trying to find which of the 27 Dr Who Discussions is the current one...

ICBM

digitalscream said:

Where it says "Phrase Match", choose "All" from the dropdown. Admittedly it's not too intuitive, but that's Vanilla for you.

It does seem stupid that this isn't the default option, given that probably 99% of the time you're searching on a combination of words it's because you want to find that *combination* of words... not one or the other of them.

I don't think I've ever done a search where I wanted an 'or' result, on any forum or website.