Search Function - "Search term" rather than "multiple" words

[B'stard Child]

Did this in another thread in response to Gav147 comment

Gav147 said:

PH - easily searchable??? have you ever tried to search for anything on here before

BC said:

It's way better than it used to be - the only issue for me is I dislike the fact you search for a "term" ie "Farage poster" but it returns all the posts with both "Farage" and "poster" (It was related to a thread in NP&E - sorry)



This means you end up clicking on the detail to bring up one post under each thread



then expand all the posts



but it's still better than when it didn't work at all

Unless another PH'r has found a way of making it search for a complete string "Farage Poster" (Because quotation marks don't work and neither does anything else I've tried)

I said "I might stick this in website feedback and see if the techies have a clue"

[dmitry]

I just use Google. Put a term in quotes and add siteistonheads.com to the query, e.g.

"Farage Poster" site:pistonheads.com

ETA: can't make the link to work.

Edited by dmitry on Tuesday 10th January 08:34

Edited by dmitry on Tuesday 10th January 08:38

[B'stard Child]

Seems to work for others......

Krikkit said:

It seems to work OK for me with quotations...

So maybe an issue for me and firefox?

[B'stard Child]

dmitry said:

I just use Google. Put a term in quotes and add siteistonheads.com to the query, e.g.

"Farage Poster" site:pistonheads.com

ETA: can't make the link to work.

Always makes me chuckle when forum "Smilies" get embedded in text

Edited by B'stard Child on Tuesday 10th January 10:43

[TheJimi]

dmitry said:

I just use Google. Put a term in quotes and add siteistonheads.com to the query, e.g.

"Farage Poster" site:pistonheads.com

Yep, that's my technique too - as it is for most fora.