Please can you give us a more serfisticated search function?

[bibbitybobbitybloodyaxe]

For instance, tonight I was searching for all instances of "shame on you" - (so I could put all users of this dreadful old phrase on my shitlist ) in the last month.

But instead I got all threads that had the word "shame" in them, which is not the same thing at all.

Could we please have a button for "exact phrase only" or summat like that?

Thank you for your request.
I don't know the technical requirements to do that so I can't promise anything but it will be noted in tech's scruffy notebook

Have you still got your Hallowe'en name on?

Oh dear, yes .

I think I might keep it until its time to change to the Christmas name around 15th December.

Hope you have been well supplied with wine and crisps for your night "on duty" while all others are gallivanting in Chancery Lane??

WTF are my crisps actually?
Some bugger must have eaten them.

that's a coincidence, I was thinking exactly the same thing today. We need to be able to search for a phrase by putting it in quotes like you can with every other search engine.

Hello there,

Tech has posted a response to this same (I think) question here

Basically, we do see your point but the Tech team have a million things on their list at the moment, so it might be a while.

Sorry not to be more helpful

MNHQ x

Oh well, that's told me then.

Shame on you, bibbity ...

@BIWI

Shame on you, bibbity ...

Rofl.

If you use the Site Search rather than the Talk search you can do exactly this - put quotes around the phrase and it will search for that exact phrase. It will search the whole site, rather than just Talk, but you'll likely get what you want. If the phrase appears in the thread title that will likely come out at the top of the results, followed by threads where it appeared in the body of the posts.

It's actually a Google search, so you can do other things too, like:

Search for "shame on you" but not in Telly addicts or Pedants' corner

Search for the phrase "about SOMETHING OR OTHER all the time"

Thanks for the hint YetMoreTech, that gave me exactly what I needed