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Originally Posted by 40plus
Also, the default logic is OR
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nope, it's AND. a while ago i thought the same, but it's wrong.
if you want to gain "teenage" or "dream", you need to add OR between both searchwords. using just "teenage dream" by default quick- and advance search, the engine searchs in entire posts
(or only titles if you've used this filter in advance search - this narrows the results a lot, but often doesn't give what you're looking for and you might think it's not available) for threads
(or posts, if you've made the setting to receive posts as result) having both searchwords included.
the asterisk is indeed helpful, but you should know how to use it:
dream*
finds Dream and words starting with Dream
*dream
finds Dream and words ending with dream
knowing this, the search term "dream* *girls" finds all "Dream Girls" as well as all "Dreamgirls".
while "*dream girls*" will give you "WhateverDream Girlsthread" or "American Dream Girls Nation" or "Dream Girls" alone.
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Originally Posted by bmg
why do 'teenage dream girls' and 'teenage dreamgirls' result in 2 different search results?
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it's because each word is treated as separate, single word. VEF search won't find "dream" and/or "girls" in "dreamgirls". it also won't find these words if you add the OR statement. you have to use asterisks instead.
so, the most suitable search term for your original request should have been
Code:
teenage dream* *girls
you can use same term either per quick search or in advance search
(here: search in posts), ask to view posts as result and
(if advance) you can specify the forums you want to include to narrow the result, if you like
(e.g. "classic magazines" and "modern magazines" - hold CTRL key to select more than 1 forum).