The search function

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by piersyf

I'm going to throw in my 2c worth, being a noob to this forum. I think it is an OK search engine. Not great, but it does work. If I was allowed to make one change, I would have the results broken down into specific forum threads. I have used the search function a few times, had lots or returns, and found 2/3's of them to apply to SH3. If I could refine to SH4 it'd give closer, more accurate results.

If the system will already do that, I restate, I am a noob to the forum, and that facility (if it exists) is not obvious.

Go under "Advanced Search" and you can confine your search to specific forums.

[Khourieat]

Originally Posted by reallydedpoet

Nice post S


RDP

Very nice! I just hit that link and one of the results was this very thread :rotfl:

Maybe the forum search should just point to the site search in google? Or offer both?

[aanker]

Originally Posted by Able72

Cool, very usefull. I didn't know Google would do that. Thanks.

Nowadays both IE7 and Mozilla Firefox have a search box built in and mine are configured to use Google. That's why I un-installed the Google Toolbar; toolbars take up too much real estate on my browser for my taste. I performed the same search just now in the Firefox box with the same results. Yup... pretty cool.

The forum search usually works fine for me but I do use the above method if it doesn't spit out any results.

Art

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" If I was allowed to make one change, I would have the results broken down into specific forum threads."

Click on "advanced" and you can have a lot of control over your searches.

Also, the search toolbars can only search the web-accessible (web page) directories and files. These tools cannot search SQL databases (which some messages systems use.)
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