What's the difference between searching with quotation marks and without them?
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Hi everyone. This morning I was searching for: my family doesn't know. A copy had been uploaded about 7 minutes prior, and i wanted to see if there were other sizes available. The phrase "my family doesn't know" is from the name/title of the upload, not file name or description.
I opened a second tab to search by Size and when I put in the title there was no result, although I was looking at the prior upload on my first tab.
However, when I repeated this but used quotes, I got results.
Obviously the difference was the use of quotation marks. So my question is: what do the quotes do differently in the context of Searching? Or to rephrase, What is the prupose of quotes and does it necessarily yield more results than earching without them?
Many thanks from a non-techie.
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I can't say for sure how that works on "this" site, but for most every other search engine (including Google) the quotes will return results with ALL the words inside the quotes in that order. As opposed to ANY of the words in ANY order without quotes.
Some website search engines assume the quotes are already there, and some do not. They may do things altogether differently here.
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Hi everyone. This morning I was searching for: my family doesn't know. A copy had been uploaded about 7 minutes prior, and i wanted to see if there were other sizes available. The phrase "my family doesn't know" is from the name/title of the upload, not file name or description.
I opened a second tab to search by Size and when I put in the title there was no result, although I was looking at the prior upload on my first tab.
However, when I repeated this but used quotes, I got results.
Obviously the difference was the use of quotation marks. So my question is: what do the quotes do differently in the context of Searching? Or to rephrase, What is the prupose of quotes and does it necessarily yield more results than earching without them?
Many thanks from a non-techie.
Quotes means exact, with no variance. Results must must contain exact phrase. However, this may not work for every environment. For instance, using quotes may work for google searches, but another search engine may ignore them.
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quotes are not really used in search here on GTRU. doesn't matter if you use them.
you have to search for the most uncommon words if you want narrower results.
in your case i'd search:
family know
family doesn tjust tried each and all returned one result.
