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From: Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
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Subject: Re: OT: Search tricks?
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:26:35 -0700
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On 8/21/2024 1:10 PM, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
> On 8/21/24 21:57, Don Y wrote:
>> Is there some secret handshake to coerce *etail* sites to pay closer attention
>> to your search criteria?  It seems like they produce results that match ANY
>> of your terms instead of ALL.  [...]
> 
> I tried that. They'll take the intended logical operator as yet
> another search term and show you *more* undesired results.

I wasn't thinking of an explicit *operator* as much as careful grouping.
E.g.,
     "stainless steel" "2 gang" "wall plate"
to match all variants of those *three* phrases -- and NOT:
    wall plate
OR two gang
OR stainless steel
(OR stainless OR steel OR two OR gang OR wall OR plate...)

> Idiots.

They obviously think more folks will spend extra time trying to settle
for something than moving on.