Excluding search results that contain 'word'

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Excluding search results that contain 'word'

Post by krp312 » Wed Dec 07, 2016 12:33 am

Greetings,

Newbie over here, hello everyone. I'd like to know how to do a search that excludes anything with the word 'jazzmaster' in it. How would I do this?

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Re: Excluding search results that contain 'word'

Post by Trout » Wed Dec 07, 2016 12:39 am

Advanced search. Top right corner on the site.
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Re: Excluding search results that contain 'word'

Post by krp312 » Wed Dec 07, 2016 1:43 am

There doesn't seem to be a way to specify that though. I was wondering if there were any syntactical things I could enter.

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Re: Excluding search results that contain 'word'

Post by Trout » Wed Dec 07, 2016 1:51 am

"Search for keywords:
Place + in front of a word which must be found and - in front of a word which must not be found." Won't that work?
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Re: Excluding search results that contain 'word'

Post by krp312 » Wed Dec 07, 2016 7:16 am

I've gotta be doing something wrong, check it out, the link below was for the search string

+jaguar -jazzmaster +pickup*

Yet 'jazzmaster' shows up in the results.

http://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/sea ... mit=Search

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Re: Excluding search results that contain 'word'

Post by mezcalhead » Sat Dec 17, 2016 5:47 am

It says under the heading "ignored: jaguar jazzmaster" which I think means that there are too many instances of those words on the site so it leaves them out. The inbuilt search is relatively feeble.

Google generally does a better job, like this for example.
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Re: Excluding search results that contain 'word'

Post by krp312 » Sat Dec 17, 2016 5:55 am

Oh wow this is much nicer, thanks a lot!

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