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July 25

Search engine question. Ignore vs. exclude

moving to RD/C

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Are there search engines which can do both, ignore and exclude?

I mean by "ignore", a search like (shades AND of AND grey) but ignore "50 Shades of Grey" should return most files containing the words "shades", "of", "grey" but only if they are not part of the wording, "50 Shades of Grey".

By "exclude", even a file containing both the wording "50 Shades of Grey" and the individual words outside the context would be excluded.

For example, the article would stay in the "ignore" results, because of the sentence "Not to be confused with Shades of Grey." but get excluded from the "exclude" search results, due to the redirect remark, "(Redirected from 50 Shades of Grey)". - ¡Ouch! (^{hurt me} / _{more pain}) 08:50, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And again, the signature gained a second meaning.

I'm moving this topic to RD/C, where I originally wanted to post. - ¡Ouch! (^{hurt me} / _{more pain}) 10:50, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]