Searching Exploreoz - Things to remember - Be helpfull

I just read a thread where the first comment from a responding poster was to ask if they did a search.

Not long ago I was after some information on Camp Oven preparation. I search that exact text and a few different versions of it with bad spelling ones as well. I ended up with everything about "camp plus "oven" + "preparation". Including how to prepare a damper. I had six hundred hits at one stage. So I read about the first twenty. None of them had anything remotely like preparing a camp oven in them. Having written search algorithms for many years before retiring it really frustrates me. The search engine used here works but it cannot find anything that is not spelt correctly.

I then asked the forum how to do it. I did state in my post that I had tried. Yet I still got the "search fanatics" who told me I should search first. I got an immediate response from an excellent user who gave me the exact link I needed that cleared my issue up completely. 1.5 hours wasted searching. I printed it and stuck it to the camp ovens lib. Thanks heavens I do not have to do that search again.

Try searching for "nullabor" and "nullabore" and "nullabour". Now I ask what is the correct spelling. If you use the wrong version you will miss the article in "Rubberlegs'" blog. Fictitious choice of used id.

My point is. If you can come up with a link yourself that suits the posters request then you should give it to him. Don't attack him for not using the search function. Knowing my son, he wouldn't understand the intricacies of how to select the text to find. Let alone the need for punctuation to instigate a boolean function.

People, please be more helpful. Maybe even show the EXACT text you used in your search. Keep it friendly.

With good intent and no criticism against anyone AT ALL.

Phil