How to do a search for a "phrase"?

[Dmitry]

For instance, if I want to find archived posts dealing with Clarence Shaw , I punch in "Clarence Shaw" and get 42 pages of posts that contain either Clarence OR Shaw. Is there a way to search for a "phrase"?

[Chas]

If you could search phrases , you would have found this thread on searching phrases !

So , the answer is no .

Don't know why this hasn't been fixed ; a lot of thread redundancy such as this could be avoided .

[Jim Alfredson]

It hasn't been fixed because it's supposed to work but doesn't. You're supposed to be able to use quotes to surround a phrase, such as typing "clarence shaw" in the search box.

But as you know, it doesn't work. When I've explained this to Invision, they just say "it should work". So I'm not really sure what to do.

[Niko]

this has been remarked earlier: you can search on organissimo.org via google. just write site:organissimo.org behind your google search query, like, for clarence shaw search for

"clarence shaw" site:organissimo.org

on google

[Matthew]

I had that same trouble when I looked up John Coltrane -- every "John" would be included. Now I just type in Coltrane and that helps, I also do that with other artists names (type in the most unique half of the name), it seems to thin things out.

[Niko]

I had that same trouble when I looked up John Coltrane -- every "John" would be included. Now I just type in Coltrane and that helps, I also do that with other artists names (type in the most unique half of the name), it seems to thin things out.

I used to do that too but finally switched to google when I wanted to search for Joe Guy

Edited August 7, 2006 by Niko