Re: OT: Search tricks?

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.