Search for mutiple words

johne_3065 · 01-15-2008, 03:37 PM

How do you search for the following examples:
- "Black Oak Arkansas", and only display entries with this exact phase
- "Led Zeppelin" +"London", and only display entries with both of these phases

The Sicilian · 03-03-2008, 07:32 PM

I have had the same problem myself, I tried to search for "flying burrito brothers" and got 500 pages in advanced search.

I am trying to find a way to search for the multiple word phrase with no luck so far. Usually if you add "" it will isolate the name but in the above case it looks for each individual word and returns anything found with each word in it.

Anyone have a solution to this?

dirtsleeze · 04-08-2008, 06:32 AM

Do a search for ZZ Top and no results match though I know for sure that there are posts...

funktank · 04-08-2008, 06:43 AM

Don't know about multiple words, can't get that to work for me ... yet!

You can search zztop though (without a space) and a few bits come up. I would do that, find a user who has made some good posts then go to their profile and see the "view all posts by xxxx" bit.

Just a thought.

FHS · 04-10-2008, 06:35 AM

I meant to post this in this thread:

Quote:

Originally Posted by FHS

By the way, there's always Google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22zz...wst=1&filter=0

01-15-2008, 03:37 PM	#1
johne_3065 Local Artist Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 60	Search for mutiple words How do you search for the following examples: - "Black Oak Arkansas", and only display entries with this exact phase - "Led Zeppelin" +"London", and only display entries with both of these phases

04-08-2008, 06:32 AM	#3
dirtsleeze Starving Artist Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Based in West Virginia but I spend most of my time on the road. Posts: 28	Here's another one... Do a search for ZZ Top and no results match though I know for sure that there are posts...

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03-03-2008, 07:32 PM	#2
The Sicilian Starving Artist Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 13	I have had the same problem myself, I tried to search for "flying burrito brothers" and got 500 pages in advanced search. I am trying to find a way to search for the multiple word phrase with no luck so far. Usually if you add "" it will isolate the name but in the above case it looks for each individual word and returns anything found with each word in it. Anyone have a solution to this?

04-08-2008, 06:43 AM	#4
funktank Backup Artist Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: London Posts: 141	Don't know about multiple words, can't get that to work for me ... yet! You can search zztop though (without a space) and a few bits come up. I would do that, find a user who has made some good posts then go to their profile and see the "view all posts by xxxx" bit. Just a thought.

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