# A note about Cafe Society searches
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-cafe-society-searches/568992
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 26, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-cafe-society-searches/568992 "2011-01-26T00:29:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-cafe-society-searches/568992/1 "2011-01-26T00:29:51Z")
There’s some wonkiness in the search function, in that it can’t deal with quotation marks, even if you include the quotation marks in your search.
Thus, if you’re searching thread titles to see if there’s something already started about a book, movie, or TV show, and the person who started that thread used quotation marks around that title – or even on one end of that title – the SDMB search will not find it.
\*Can’t find: \* Thread about “Name of Movie”
The Google search can cope; see [the ATMB post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11650034#post11650034) on how to run a Google search.
If you’re starting a thread and want to be nice to people looking for it later, put spaces between the title and its quotes:
\*Can find: \* Thread about " Name of Movie "
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2011, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-cafe-society-searches/568992/2 "2011-01-26T10:50:44Z")
Correction: It turns out you can use the wild card function.
Instead of searching for _title_, put an asterisk on either side of the relevant string: **title**
Thanks, **Hypnagogic Jerk**!
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### Author:  [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-cafe-society-searches/568992/4 "2011-08-01T23:27:39Z")
Thanks for posting this info for all of us, **twickster**.
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### Author:  [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-cafe-society-searches/568992/8 "2013-01-17T02:44:30Z")
Oops! Wrong place to post! Not sure how this happened…sorry! :smack::smack::smack:
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### Author:  [@alphads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphads)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2013, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-cafe-society-searches/568992/9 "2013-04-13T07:43:31Z")
So nice
[Bus Shelter](http://alphaads.in/)
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-cafe-society-searches/568992/13 "2017-06-25T15:08:15Z")
What about putting underscores on each side of the title, to indicate where an underline would go? Like:
I’m reading the _Wild Cards_ books
?
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2020, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-note-about-cafe-society-searches/568992/17 "2020-09-01T21:49:52Z")