How do you use the search feature?

[Nocturnal]

I tried searching and what happend was it told me I have generic phrases in my search text. However, the following is what I had typed, "dying hard drive".

WTF?

 

[tennesota]

Same thing happened to me using a different set of keywords [brand and model of mobo]. It seems to be an issue with the 'spaces' because a single keyword works okay.

 

[allisolm]

I can't search for "Office Depot" or "Best Buy" in Hot Deals. Kind of puts a crimp in searching for things in that forum.

 

[NightTrain]

I couldn't use USB PCI CARD 🙁

 

[Jason Clark]

I dont see an issue here.

I searched for intel and willamtte and had no issues at all.

 

[NightTrain]

Try "intel willamette".

 

[NightTrain]

Tennesota is on to it. It has to be the spaces in the search phrase. Office Depot won't work but officedepot will. But the quick search at the top of the forum handles the spaces fine. So it's confined to the advanced search.

 

[edtrip]

Yeah, you've got to go Boolean in the advanced search.
It has to be Intel and Willamette.

 

[allisolm]

Office Depot won't work but officedepot will.

Seems kind of wrong to ask you to input your "search phrase" and then have phrases not work, only individual words. I hope it's just a glitch since searching for "officedepot" doesn't return titles which contain "Office Depot".

 

[NightTrain]

The plus works for something like Best Buy or Office Depot.

 

[Kyteland]

From another thread:

Originally posted by: Kyteland

Originally posted by: NightTrain
I can do a title search on "USB CARD" but when I try to do a detailed search on it, I get the following message:

Your search contained ignored words, ignored words are words like a,and,to,between.Please re-construct your search without these ignored words.
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By "title search" I mean entering it at the top of the forum. It works there. When I go into search and try the same string it complains. This happens if I pick title only or title + body.

NightTrain, I was getting that too. I think your ignored word is the space. If you look at the help for search (that little life preserver image next to the search box) it says this:

To construct a search string you can use the following boolean operators: AND OR AND NOT Example: dog and cat or sheep and not bird
+ The word is mandatory in all rows returned.
- The word cannot appear in any row returned.
* The wildcard, indicating zero or more characters. It can only appear at the end of a word.
" Anything enclosed in the double quotes is taken as a whole (so you can match phrases, for example).

Replace the space with the appropriate operator and you should be good to go.

edit: Try these searches:
beta forums - Error: there are ignored words
"beta forums" - Error: there are ignored words
beta and forums - Lots of search results, anything with both words in it somewhere
beta+forums - Only results of both words together.

 

[Jason Clark]

Fixed, try it out

 

[NightTrain]

:heart:

 

[allisolm]

Many thanks Oh Great and Powerful Wizard of FuseTalk!

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: Jason Clark
Fixed, try it out

Using the same search example I used above:

Searching for "beta forums" returns nothing, while searching for beta forums returns less results than beta and forums

It seems to me that beta forums returns the results I would have expected from "beta forums". Can you update the help to reflect your current implementation?