Search a phrase?

[George K]

In the search field, is there an option to search a string of words?

"Klaus sucks at the piano" gives me results which include the word "sucks" that are not what I'm looking for.

Same at the old place.

[Mik]

Isn't there an exact phrase search?

[George K]

@Mik said in Search a phrase?:

Isn't there an exact phrase search?

Not that I can find.

[Mik]

Not yet, but maybe with a plugin.

https://docs.nodebb.org/configuring/plugins/search/

[taiwan_girl]

Can you do the + symbol?

Like Klaus +sucks +piano?

[Axtremus]

Use Google, construct your query like so:

site:nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club "Klaus sucks at the piano"

This is a Google trick, so it should also work for other sites indexed by Google too.

It’s a lot more expensive to index “phrases” instead of “words.” So small/cheap search engines typically don’t do that.

[George K]

@Axtremus ah! Thank you!

I'll keep that in mind.

[Axtremus]

Like Ishino et al. after teaching the world how to precisely edit gene sequences with CRISPR-Cas9, @Axtremus wonders how the discourse on TNCR may change forever after exposing the trick for precise multi word sequence search …

[Horace]

@Axtremus said in Search a phrase?:

Like Ishino et al. after teaching the world how to precisely edit gene sequences with CRISPR-Cas9, @Axtremus wonders how the discourse on TNCR may change forever after exposing the trick for precise multi word sequence search …

You spent so much time asking whether you could, you failed to ask, whether you should.