How to exclude specific phrases from search results

[perlgerl]

I am new to WebmasterWorld and desperately need assistance with a problem I am having and hope to find a solution here.

When I conduct a search for Eg. 'blue dogs', I receive several search results, all of which I want to exclude.
I do not want any search results if someone searches for that specific term.
Is there a way to exclude the search results I want by including a line in my htaccess file prohibiting results for "blue dogs" and just come back with "search results do not exist" ?

Is this even possible or must I find a way to do this in my dogs.pl file instead?

My htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /furryfriends
RewriteRule kitty_friends/(.*) cats.pl?$1
RewriteRule doggie_friends/(.*) dogs.pl?$1

Thank you!

[wilderness]

The only way to accomplish this is based upon referrals, however referral based rewrites have many limitations.

[jdMorgan]

"Conduct a search" where? -- On your own site using its own search facility, or in Google/Yahoo/Bing/Ask etc.?

If you don't want search engines to fetch a page, use robots.txt to Disallow them.

If you don't want search engines to list a page, use an on-page <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tag, and do not disallow search engines from fetching the page.

Jim

[perlgerl]

Yes, sorry on my own site. I'm a newb.

Is it possible to do?

Thanks.

[mack]

This will depend greatly on the search software you are running to provide the search. A simplistic way of doing this would be to analyze the search query server side, before it goes to your actual search script. If the search query meets a certain criteria that you don't want to serve results for simple point the user to something else as opposed to the search script.

Mack.

[perlgerl]

Thanks, Mack.

This is my form:


##############################################################
$lnm = $FORM{'lastname'};
if (($lnm ne "") and ($lnm !~ /^[\w]{3,30}$/g)) { showerror("search term invalid"); }
$name = $FORM{'name'};
if ($name eq "") {
$datain = "$ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}";
$datain =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C",hex($1))/eg;
$datain =~ s/\cM//g;# delete ^M's
$datain =~ s/\0//g;
$name = "$datain";
}
$name =~ s/([\\`\\\|<>\(\)\[\]\{\}\$\n\r])/\\$1/g; # the great escape
if (length($name) < 3) { showerror("you must enter a word of at least 3 letters"); }
if ($name !~ /^[\w\s]{3,30}$/g) { showerror("search term invalid"); }

Can I enter another if statement here to come back as "search term invalid" if anyone types in blue dogs or purple rhinos or yellow monkeys?

Thank you all for your help.

[mack]

somethign like...

if ($name=="bad term here")
{
showerror("That search term is not allowed.")
}

Mack.

[g1smd]

I'd probably go for:

showerror("No results found.")

[mack]

Good point...

Also if you have multiple terms...

if ($name=="bad term here") || ($name=="another term here") || ($name=="some term here")
{
showerror("your error message")
}

[perlgerl]

It isn't working and I am getting my "handle errors nicely" message.

Dang. Any ideas?

Thanks for your help.