Can you give example search urls ? Also take a look at sam2kb's advanced search plugin.

Sorry maybe I am not clear, I mean searching for posts on this forum. Although I have just found I can find my posts by clicking on the number of posts on My Profile page the forum search doesn't bring them up nor can I find my posts via searching for the content. For instance, ifI search for {amoun variable} I get only five posts out of 55 of mine; as usual the first is mine, the rest are random but not the one where I ask for help finding variable

When we upgrade this forum to b2evo v6, we'll have a brand ne search implementation.

We'll upgrade as soon as it's stable. Should be this month.

If that confirms my experience I wonder how things get found, or is it that it has just been getting worse. I'm sure it used to be a lot better.

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Well just browsing the forum and came across my old post and things seem the same. If I search for "amoun" i get posts with the word amount not posts with my user name??

I put the word in quotes, in the search input field, thinking that would stop any prefix and suffix but not so?

Even if the search item is " amoun " that's with spaces it still brings up posts with (amount)

I confirm, the search algorithm does not recognize usernames for now.

I moved this up on the todo list.

I just thought that if a search item was surrounded by quotes it would only find that exact match, so though it may not find a user name I thought it shouldn't find a word that contains the search item.

Our search engine doesn't have double quote syntax BUT the search engine will score exact matches much higher than partial matches.

Just searched for [search syntax] and found this post http://forums.b2evolution.net/search-syntax
So I'm wondering too what is the syntax if any. Is it as the mentioned post says just an [or]

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There is no syntax. You type words and the search engine will give priority to exact matches, to more words matches and to recent content.

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