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| apt100 Member Since: 05 Mar 2015 Location: Derbyshire Posts: 1547   
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I'm not sure about def2 specifically, but most forum search facilities are a bit lacking, so I often search using google.
eg mud flap site:defender2.net will look for both words on the forum |
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3rd Aug 2016 1:23pm |
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| Martin Site Admin Member Since: 02 Apr 2007 Location: Hook Norton Posts: 6478 
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Try wrapping in quotes (same as Google) - so keep the quotes in "mud flap" when you search.
I've just tried it and it's appeared to work OK  1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top
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3rd Aug 2016 1:29pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 16863 
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I think that entering:-
mud flap will find threads containing the word mud and/or the word flap, mud AND flap will find threads which contain both the word mud and the word flap, and mud OR flap will find threads which contain either the word mud or the word flap but not both. In each case above the bit in bold is the bit typed in the search box. However none of these does what I was trying to do, namely find threads which contain the phrase "mud flap" ! |
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3rd Aug 2016 1:31pm |
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| Martin Site Admin Member Since: 02 Apr 2007 Location: Hook Norton Posts: 6478
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Also try this:
mud << flap This will give you results where mud is always before flap The underlying search engine used is not the awful forum default, it is a replacement called Sphinx. The lookup documentation is here: http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/latest/boolean-syntax.html http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/latest/extended-syntax.html 1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top
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3rd Aug 2016 1:36pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 16863
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This was one of the first things I tried, but it doesn't do it. "mud flap" is a poor example because there are so many posts with some combination of these workds. If you try "run lock" it is a better test since there are fewer posts with the phrase "run lock". Searching for:- "run lock" gives 148 threads run AND lock gives 139 threads run OR lock gives 74 threads run lock (without quotes) also gives 148 threads, so the same as without quotes. If you try it after I've posted this it will be more of course. However none of these is searching for the phrase "run lock" as opposed to various combinations of the two words! I have also tried things like +run +lock and &run &lock but these, unsurprisingly also don't work. |
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3rd Aug 2016 1:41pm |
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| Martin Site Admin Member Since: 02 Apr 2007 Location: Hook Norton Posts: 6478
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Please see my post above
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2015 D90 XS SW |
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3rd Aug 2016 1:41pm |
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| apt100 Member Since: 05 Mar 2015 Location: Derbyshire Posts: 1547
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"run lock" site:defender2.net
finds 26 results (useful for lesser forums with very basic search facilities) |
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3rd Aug 2016 1:53pm |
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| Martin Site Admin Member Since: 02 Apr 2007 Location: Hook Norton Posts: 6478
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Funnily enough the multi-multi-billion dollar internet company Google are better at setting up a search engine than me
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2015 D90 XS SW |
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3rd Aug 2016 1:55pm |
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| apt100 Member Since: 05 Mar 2015 Location: Derbyshire Posts: 1547
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I meant lesser than this one ie still with the basic search facility. You said you had upgraded
eg some won't even accept 3 letters or less, so "mud" would be ignored. (as the OP is sorted, I was just trying to give info that might be useful to others in other situations). No offence intended. |
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3rd Aug 2016 1:57pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 16863
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Thanks everyone!
I will try the above in a while (when I get time). Martin, our posts crossed! |
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3rd Aug 2016 2:31pm |
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| JOW240725 Member Since: 04 May 2015 Location: Suffolk Posts: 7873 
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Does this help?
James
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3rd Aug 2016 2:48pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 16863
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Hmm, I am still not able to search for an exact multi-word phrase!
Martin, what Matching Mode are you using, is it SPH_MATCH_ANY by any chance? Looking at Ch 5 of the documentation for Sphinx (see http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/latest/matching-modes.html ) , it looks as though to enable phrase searching (plus a whole host of other advanced searching features) the Matching Mode needs to be SPH_MATCH_EXTENDED. If this is what it is set to already, then I am completely baffled. I'm not trying to be a pain nor to waste your valuable time and I apologise therefore if I am unintentionally doing both, but it surprises me that something that seems as though it should be simple actually isn't. |
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3rd Aug 2016 2:59pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 16863
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Using Google and the search criterion:
site:defender2.net "run lock" does indeed do what I would expect, namely just shows results which contain the phrase "run lock". |
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3rd Aug 2016 3:02pm |
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