Advanced search help
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So I know to use - * and " for without wildcard and exact, but I am trying to figure out how to search for a filename that has a - in it and everything I try doesn't work. The - is an important part of the search because without it the letters used are very common and it turns up a ton of extraneous results. Anyone with a better grasp of Boolean that can help it would be very much appreciated.
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@UserFriendly I find that the torrent search engine treats multiple words as being conjunctions, i.e., searching on twink kyle turns up all only those torrents with both terms in it. I just did that one and got 7 hits. Putting a minus sign in front of a term (such as twink kyle -orgy) gives 6 results, leaving out the first hit on the previous search that had the word "orgy" in the title. So the take-away message is that a Boolean "and" operator is not needed, and a minus sign prefix will handle a "not" operator. I don't think there's an "or" operator, but perhaps there's some syntax for that.
I haven't tried much with wildcards, but searching for twink kyl* gets additional hits for when the term kyler appears in the title. Note that searching on kyle does not return records with kyler in them.
Intra-website search engines are difficult to implement. I appreciate that the engine here assumes a conjunction with two or more terms. On another torrent site, "twink kyle" would be interpreted as "twink OR kyle," making useful searching almost impossible.
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