Why does search include ANY instead of ALL terms? (i.e. OR vs. AND)

Why does the ubuntuforums search include all posts with *any* of the terms in the search field instead of *all* of them? (i.e. Why does it search for "this OR that" when I want to search for "this AND that"?) This just decreases the signal-to-noise ratio by showing multiple posts that are unhelpful to me.

I would find this feature immensely more useful if it would search for all terms. Is there even a way to do this?

Thanks for your consideration.

You can use the + sign to use AND searching. It's a pain, but it works.

For example, searching for dapper install would search dapper OR install, while +dapper +install would search for both terms in the same post. (The search system still shows the searched keywords as OR, but the results do come up correctly.)

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Thanks very much for the tip.

Since the icon below your name says you're on the ubuntuforums staff, may I ask: what are your thoughts on making AND searching the default (i.e. that users wouldn't need to use the '+' trick to do an AND search)?

flamacue said: Thanks very much for the tip.

Since the icon below your name says you're on the ubuntuforums staff, may I ask: what are your thoughts on making AND searching the default (i.e. that users wouldn't need to use the '+' trick to do an AND search)?

I'd be in support of it, but I'm not an administrator so I can't change anything. ;) Judging by some vBulletin information I found, this would most likely need to be edited in the source code by ubuntu-geek.

jacobmp92 said: You can use the + sign to use AND searching. It's a pain, but it works.

Thanks for that info!

Another way is to use google, just include as one of the search terms

site:ubuntuforums.org

and google will only return results that originated from here.