Is it intended? Who knows? Is it the way it works? Yes. It does pretty well on single words, but I have never had any luck doing Boolean (multi-word or phrase) searches on the vBulletin search engine.
If I really need a Boolean search, and don't want to wade through hundreds of irrelevant returns, I have found it better to go to groups.google.com, click on Advanced Groups Search, specify trailmanorowners.com/forum in the Site or Domain box (not the Groups box), it will sometimes do better.
Or go to google.com and click on Advanced Search. It brings up a similar window.
These aren't perfect either - this morning, for example, I am unable to get the "Author" filter to work. And it won't find anything that was posted since the last visit from the Google web-crawler.
Bill
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