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I was searching for recent threads about The Office. I did an Advanced Search and kept all of the defaults except:



* Key Word(s): "the office"
* Search titles only
* selected Cafe Society only
* find posts from within the last 6 months

I got 12 results. In the second result, the thread referenced another Office thread that did not show up in the results:
The Office–hour episode starts at 8 PM EST 12-14-2006, 04:19 PM

It looks like this thread fits the criteria. Is this just some anomaly with the search index? Are the hypens right after ‘Office’ messing up the match? It’s not a big deal and I’m not complaining. The search seems to miss stuff periodically and I finally felt like pinning it down.

And in case anyone cares, to save additional searching, here are the results:


The Office 1/4/07 Mahaloth 	01-07-2007 03:45 PM
The Office, 12/14, "A Benihana Christmas" MidnightRadio 	12-19-2006 03:49 PM
The Office: 11/30 Oslo Ostragoth 	12-03-2006 01:04 PM
The Office: 11/16 (open spoilers) Diogenes the Cynic 	11-19-2006 05:01 PM
The Office 11/2 gigi 	11-04-2006 02:46 PM
The Office 10/12 "The Initiation" Mahaloth 	10-13-2006 10:05 PM
The Office 10/5 robotic_panda 	10-06-2006 09:54 PM
The Office 9/29 MaxTheVool 	10-03-2006 06:06 PM
The Office (Pam & Jim) Hampshire 	09-21-2006 01:14 PM
The Office - UK version What the .... ?!?! 	09-08-2006 11:25 AM
The Office (UK) fans.... watch this now while you can...  Push You Down 	08-29-2006 08:48 PM
The Office Webisodes Gangster Octopus
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That’d be my guess. The search engine does not recognise the word **Office ** in the title because all it can see is the word Office–hour.

If you search on **Office–hour ** the thread shows up.

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I think it’s probably the hyphen. The search engine is very particular; symbols like parentheses and even quote marks can also screw it up, IIRC. Using an asterisk before and after your key words can help, so “the office*” should find it.

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Thanks Cunctator and Dex.