Search syntax help – Grouping

For my first post I have a question. Is there any way to group terms together for a search? The more words you enter into the box the more results you get instead of less.

A search for John Williams will find all the Johns and all the Williams. I tried several different ways to group like & or AND, brackets, parenthesis and quotes but if there is a way to make it work I haven’t stumbled on it.

A lot of local searches seem to work the same way, which is especially frustrating on large forums and shopping sites.

I’m hoping someone will post an answer and folks on the other side of the city (and I live in a big one) will hear my "DOH!" when I realize how simple it is.

it’s never worked well in vbulletin. you can do a google search of the site tho !