# Advanced search: how to make it 'and' keywords, not 'or' them?

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**Created:** [September 26, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-search-how-to-make-it-and-keywords-not-or-them/465332 "2008-09-26T14:39:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-search-how-to-make-it-and-keywords-not-or-them/465332/1 "2008-09-26T14:39:49Z")

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It appears that the advanced search form:  
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php)  
now results in a search that ORs the keywords, and doesn’t AND them. How can I force it to AND them? I do not see any sort of help on the page to describe this.

It wasn’t ORing them before, was it? Is this a setting that didn’t make it from the old server, or am I misremembering?