Any way to do an OR or AND search?

[Kelemvor]

Specifically here's what I want to do. I'm looking for a laptop in the Hot Deals forum. But some peopel cal them laptops, some peopel call them notebooks. So I want to do a search for Laptop OR Notebook. But, it doesn't work. Is there any way to do this?

Also if I want to find something that has two certain words in the title but not necessarily next to each other, doing a search for xxxxx AND yyyyy also doesn't work.


It'd seem this is a pretty basic search feature and Fuestalk has been around for such a long time you'd think searching would work a bit better.

Thanks.

 

[Jason Clark]

Fusetalk has done boolean searching since its inception, its just a subscriber only feature. If you search a bit you'll find plenty of discussion on the fulltext feature as it relates to subscribers..

So fusetalk works "properly" as it always has.......

l8r.

 

[compudog]

Basically, what Zuni is saying is that if you are a subscriber, you can do a Boolean search, if not you're out of luck. Fusetalk is not at fault.

 

[Kelemvor]

So in order for people to not do as many reposts because they can't find the info they are looking for, everyone would have to subscribe?! I guess that explains why certain boards are so spammy.

 

[compudog]

But you can no longer subscribe here. They are supposed to implement new features which will include full-text searching once they finish the Forums upgrade.


(Thanks Danny Boy for the correct info.. )

 

[DannyBoy]

If people paid attention to Zuni's post's, they would know certain Subscriber features including Full Text Search & Increased PM Limit, will be implemented well before the last subscription runs out.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: DannyBoy
If people paid attention to Zuni's post's, they would know certain Subscriber features including Full Text Search & Increased PM Limit, will be implemented well before the last subscription runs out.

"How long before though?" tis the question.

 

[GeoffS]

I was just about to post about this since I'm looking for some specific items in FS/FT and unless people list every item that they have for sale in their thread title, search is USELESS!!! :|

Disgruntled ex-subscriber

 

[RalphTheCow]

But you can no longer subscribe here. They are supposed to implement new features which will include full-text searching once they finish the Forums upgrade.


(Thanks Danny Boy for the correct info.. )

Well that sucks! A "Tech" forum where you can't even search for this AND that. No wonder Google rules the world!

 

[allisolm]

You did notice that this thread is from 2003, didn't you?

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