Desktop Search limitation?

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Brad

I've found that I can't search for a string inside a file using quotes
and get an accurate result. The search will find all words, even
though MS documentation indicates that searching in quotes will give
exact phrase.
anyone find this and fix it?
 
Yes, that is the documentation I refer to. From the page..

"To match a specific string literally, without it being interpreted as
a keyword, you can use double quotation marks. Words in a search query
entered between quotation marks are matched exactly, in the order they
were entered. "

This is where it falls down. Searching for an exact phrase in quotes
does not work.

Here is a test. Create three .txt files, called test1, test2 and test3

In each, type one of the following phrases

you are here
here you are
are you here

Now search that directory for "are you here" inside files

This will return all three of the test files. This is bad :)

Brad
 
Yes, that is the documentation I refer to. From the page..

"To match a specific string literally, without it being interpreted as
a keyword, you can use double quotation marks. Words in a search query
entered between quotation marks are matched exactly, in the order they
were entered. "

This is where it falls down. Searching for an exact phrase in quotes
does not work.

Here is a test. Create three .txt files, called test1, test2 and test3

In each, type one of the following phrases

you are here
here you are
are you here

Now search that directory for "are you here" inside files

This will return all three of the test files. This is bad :)
Click to expand...

This will cure it, along with all the other bugs and just plain
unintuitive, moronic features of Vista search:

http://www.mythicsoft.com/page.aspx?type=agentransack&page=home
 
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