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Harry, granted this should work (and I'm not search right off hand why it doesn't) but it's the space that's at the end of and enclosed in the quotes behind the word announcement. Just as a note, you don't have to use quotes unless you want to find an exact phrase. Searching for lead announcement would search for posts with those two separate words anywhere in the post. Whereas searching for "lead announcement" would search for posts containing that exact phrase.
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You have two quotes with spaces on both sides. The software treats them as separate, single character words.
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Alex said:
I don't believe that's true. Doing a search for "lead" "announcement" yields results and does not cause the 2 character error. There's something with the trailing space enclosed in the quotes that it doesn't like.
Shane Holland said:
The trailing space is a googling trick to force an end of word to keep the engine from searching for `extensions` of that word. Ex. I was looking for the word 'lead', not the words leads, leading, leader, etc...
....obviously this engine ain't google
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Shane Holland said:
You're right, it's more complicated than I first thought. I experimented a bit and the funny thing is, I found it only doesn't like the trailing space in the words at an even place in the string. Try it out. When using a 4 word string you can have a space at the end in words 1 and 3 but not in words 2 and 4.
"lead " "abatement" "dust " "mark" == ok
"lead " "abatement" "dust " "mark " = error
"lead " "abatement " "dust " "mark" = error
Weird, must have something to do with how the string is parsed.
