Using quotation marks in a search

[daal]

It would be useful if you could use quotation marks when making a search here on L19 to search for a specific combination of words, so that the search engine wouldn't ignore certain common words.

[schultz]

It would be useful if you could use quotation marks when making a search here on L19 to search for a specific combination of words, so that the search engine wouldn't ignore certain common words.

Huh, no one responded to this...

I've been doing some looking/research into this topic and the answer you're (not) looking for is that this is the way phpbb forum software functions. It is set up in such a way to keep down load on the server(s). It accomplishes this by indexing words and their occurrences. When you do a search for them, it simply grabs the list from the database. To keep this from getting out of hand (database bloating to obscene levels), it prevents words of certain sizes (<3 and >14).

Hopefully this makes some semblance of sense to you. (If you really want more, I have a couple links I could probably shoot your direction.)

(In retrospect, maybe no one responded because we couldn't actually help you... )

[karaklis]

Since the forum search function does not work well enough, I usually use Google with restriction to the domain.

[hyperpape]

Actually, it wouldn't be the worst idea to just stick a google search box somewhere in the theme. You can just do a google search with "site:lifein19x19.com" at the end, but 1) not everyone knows it, and 2) it's rather inconvenient.

[daal]

Thanks for the explanation Schultz, and thanks also to Karaklis and Hyperpape for the workaround!