searching for an exact term without words containing it?

Ultra_Extreme · 5 Aug 2008 at 17:16

Hi guys confusing title, lets say i want to search for MMA meaning mixed martial arts, how do i make it so only the the term MMA is searched and not "command and conquer" for example?

Cheers

Dj_Jestar · 5 Aug 2008 at 17:19

on what? Google? SQL? Plain text?

Ultra_Extreme · 5 Aug 2008 at 17:28

dont think i can name the place, is there a syntax for it in general? I know it uses boolean search but whether thats even relevant i dont know. Its a usenet indexer.

Dj_Jestar · 5 Aug 2008 at 17:31

ah.. that's going to depend on their search engine entirely I'm afraid.

Tripnologist · 5 Aug 2008 at 18:01

If it's Google, and perhaps others, put it in quotations.

"MMA"

Edit: Ahhh, just read where you said it's for Usenet. Try quotations anyway, it might work.

Moredhel · 5 Aug 2008 at 18:37

If it's a certain commercial usenet index, then I tend to use brackets and spaces for whole words. Like "star " would hit Star Paws, but not Stargoat, if you were looking for things like that. If you were looking for something called for instance 48, you'd have to be pretty specific. "48 - " that would get you items titled 48, without getting Little Pixie on the Prarie - 48x02

Allegedly...

Ultra_Extreme · 5 Aug 2008 at 18:40

Moredhel said:
If it's a certain commercial usenet index, then I tend to use brackets and spaces for whole words. Like "star " would hit Star Paws, but not Stargoat, if you were looking for things like that. If you were looking for something called for instance 48, you'd have to be pretty specific. "48 - " that would get you items titled 48, without getting Little Pixie on the Prarie - 48x02

Allegedly...

cheers m8, turned out to be ^MMA (in my example) for my nzb site. Ill play around with those too cheers

Moredhel · 5 Aug 2008 at 19:50

i don't think the one I was referring to supports regular expressions like that.