Searching for an exact phrase
 

I've tried searching for an exact phrase and have had no luck. I've used single and double quotes around the phrase and the search acts like it didn't see them. Is there a way to search for an exact phrase?

read the small font. ;)

If I use AND it means the two words will be somewhere in the post, not necessarily next to each other. If I search for brown AND bear I will get posts that have 'I once saw a brown bear' and 'I own a brown car and a black bear.' I only want the first one and if the terms I use in the search are generic enough I end up with many posts which I have to search one by one until I find the exact phrase I need. Any other ideas?

urk. that occurred to me that it might be what you were upto. honestly, i think our search function just isn't... adept enough to do that? In other words, I think you're SOL. AND and NOT should help a bit in narrowing searches, though...

Thanks Cherrios, I understand we are at the mercy of the vBulletin software. It's still disappointing to not be able to search for an exact phrase. Guess I'll just have to brush up on my logic skills.