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Originally Posted by Andy R Nope, they all suffer the same issues. The search system is run off an index of words. So each posts is parsed for the words in that post and then when you do a search it pulls up threads/posts with those words. That's why using "quotes around phrases" does not work because the indexing does not index phrases or the order in which the words appear together.

So vBulletin builds a database but can't construct or execute a "word#1 AND word#2" SQL query? Unbelievable. It's so incredible that I suspect we're not using it correctly, or that someone has put out a vBulletin fix or add-on.

Before we go haring off to have Google solve all our problems and save the world yet again, perhaps it'd be more straightforward figure out how the search feature's Boolean logic works. At the very least we could have the search function "search within results". That way we could attempt to find what we're looking for by searching for word#1, hoping that our goal makes the top 500 results, and then searching within those results for word#2. It's better than "word#1 OR word#2" and getting back 500 results showing either of the words with none of what we're looking for.

I don't know what the answer is but I suspect it's more straightforward than asking Sergey & Larry to bolt something else onto this Rube Goldberg machine...