Searching for multi-word restaurant names
I can't get the results I want from a search for a restaurant with a multi-word name - such as - "pizza shack". I tried pizza shack. I tried pizza-shack. I tried "pizza shack". I get way more that I want. I get anything with "pizza" and/or "shack" in the post. Doesn't the search work like most on-line searches, where if you put the words in quotes, it searches for those exact words?
By RAGHOUND
on Mar 15, 2010 03:21 PM
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Type this into the Google search box:
"pizza shack" site:chow.com
The downside is that you'll get results from every Chowhound board. The upside is you won't get everything with pizza and/or shack, just pizza shack. It is not ideal, but it is something. The search function on Chow is miserable.
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Are you searching from a board? Don't do it. Search from Restaurants & Bars. 2 fill-ins appear.
1st/ I'm looking for - click in and type the restaurant name.
2nd/ type your city name
Works like a charm.
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Putting it into double quotes works. Try:
"pizza shack"
and the results are exactly what you're looking for - all occurrences of that specific phrase. Of course, that's a generic phrase that can be used in discussions to refer to any restaurant in lots of places. If you want to search for a restaurant with that name in a particular city - for example, the one in Hamilton, Ontario - you can search for:
"pizza shack" hamilton
and you'll get all the topics about that particular restaurant. You can do this by searching the local board for the area you're looking at; no need to use Google (with its downsides) or to search from Restaurants & Bars (which will skip a lot of mentions in discussions).
I've found that the search function on Chowhound works very well, as long as you structure your search request so that it represents what you're looking for and wouldn't also be used in other discussions referring to something else. And I usually get better search results using the option to order the results by relevance rather than the default of newest first.
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I tried this and it worked. And it didn't used to work - has the search function on Chow been improved?
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