How to exclude keywords from SD search

In google I can type a "-" sign to the front of a keyword to signify that I want to exclude results with that word. For example, I can search "apple -iphone" and it will give me tons of apple results but exclude the ones pertaining to iphones. Is it possible to do this with SD searches as well? I looked through all the Advanced Features but didn't see anything like this.

Quote from AngryPirate : In google I can type a "-" sign to the front of a keyword to signify that I want to exclude results with that word. For example, I can search "apple -iphone" and it will give me tons of apple results but exclude the ones pertaining to iphones. Is it possible to do this with SD searches as well? I looked through all the Advanced Features but didn't see anything like this.

apple -iphone should work. maybe just do a title search?

Quote from SP33DFR34K : apple -iphone should work. maybe just do a title search?

Thanks for the quick reply SF. Yes, it does work fine in a regular search. I should have clarified that I'm trying something a little different. I'm trying to find some particular posts from another member. However that member has thousands of posts, the majority of which are in a particular thread that has the word "retired" in the title. I know the posts I'm looking for are not in this thread, so I wanted to filter out that thread (i.e filter out any threads with the word "retired" in the title.

What I do is go to Advanced Search, under "Additional Search Options" and "By Username", I type the user's name (and I did verify it was spelled correct). If I click search (leaving the search field blank), it displays all the posts by that user. However, when I add the "-retired" to the search field to attempt to remove a particular thread, it yields 0 results. And I've tried with various keywords, etc...all 0 results.