Checked the FAQ, but nothing seen on phrases. Tried the ggogle method of enclosing with quotation marks, to no avail. Specifically, trying to see if BAUT has mentioned the IMAX movie "Roving Mars". Can our search engine handle it?
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Checked the FAQ, but nothing seen on phrases. Tried the ggogle method of enclosing with quotation marks, to no avail. Specifically, trying to see if BAUT has mentioned the IMAX movie "Roving Mars". Can our search engine handle it?
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typeinto Google to do a site search."Roving Mars" site:www.bautforum.com
and you get this
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourc...autforum%2ecom
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Yes, thanks---but can BAUT's search feature handle phrases?
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Yes.
Actually, I don't think it searches for phrases but for keywords - if you enter "roving Mars", it will find posts with "roving" and "Mars", whether they're together or not.
Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.
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Sounds like "no" to me.Originally Posted by ToSeek
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It handles phrases, but it does so as individual words.
Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.
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Still sounds like "no" to me.It handles phrases, but it does so as individual words.
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I guess if you want to get technical, the OP did ask if it "handled" phrases. It does, but it doesn't "search" for phrases.It handles phrases, but it does so as individual words.
I took the spirit of the post and expanded on "enclosing with quotation marks"
Although; I've only tried it on Google, but never on GGogle.
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Okay---looks like Frog march's suggestion for phrase-searching rules!Hee-hee: Capital One
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Ok; thats the second comment...time to change it.
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This should be a "sticky", IMO. I have tried numerous ways to get a phrase search accomplished, but no luck.
Frog March seems to have given us the best answer.
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One gets the feeling that, to pghnative, that's a "no".Still sounds like "no" to me.Originally Posted by ToSeek
It handles phrases, but it does so as individual words.
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GGogle? Is that the version of Google for geriatrics with poor eyesight? Sign me up![edit]Although; I've only tried it on Google, but never on GGogle.
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I am getting this
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Odd, it works for me.
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Apparently there is a difference with the UK version of google.I am getting this
Usually what I do is just put "Bautforum" as a word in the search rather than a site. Some unrelated stuff does show up, but by using the "more results from" gets me to the appropriate syntax for a site only search.
The syntax for a site search is not second nature to me, so this is faster for me.
I am trading off extra typing and syntax for an extra click, and possible extra second or to to identify the result being from baut.
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