How should the search strings be arranged?

[arabellajones]

The instructions for the Search (the box at the top of the page) look broken.

I used two words, entered as "word1 word2" and the results clearly use the OR function, returning every entry containing either or both words.

The suggestion to improve the search was "word1 AND word2", but that treated "AND" as just another word, not as a logic function.

Google did return a few relevant results to the same basic search string, but may have stopped indexing the forums last year.

I did try digging for a JIRA on this, but I only read and write English

 

[VenKellie]

search is scripted against mysql injections. doing 'word1 AND word2' is similar to injection and so search treats it as a string.

SELECT * FROM places WHERE name LIKE '%word 1 word2%'

just to give ya a example. Thats how you run a search using php.