[big_oaf]

It's possible that I'm a complete moron (I've been called worse), but I can't figure out how to perform boolean searches on the forums. For example, blackberry AND rulez returns threads with the word blackberry OR the word rulez. This obviously returns way more results than I want.

I've tried other keywords/symbols as well, e.g. plus sign, but none of them work. I even did a bit of googling on vBulletin and boolean searching, and I did find some cases where members of other forums complained that they couldn't perform boolean searches. The admin apparently then performed some magic and it was enabled. Any chance of that happening here?

Thanks in advance!

[jibi]

Depending on the size of the forum (this is a very active and large forum), there are the options to use vBulletin search (what we have here) or MySQL Fulltext search. The latter causes a substantial strain on the database performance and increases its size by more than double. Its a great thing to have, but the potential negatives far outweigh the obvious positives on this active of a forum (in my opinion). Its very doubtful we'll go to the Fulltext search, despite its benefits, for those reasons alone (although I'm not speaking for Tom/Guess - just from my own personal experience with vBulletin).