Forum Search Help

Robin,
I was able to find posts back to 20002 searching under my old screen name.
so the info is there.
I note both your membership amd search results are may 2007 did you post under a different screen name prior to joining.
Howard

g/day robin
i have never had much success on e/o search system all due respects and use google search which comes up with a smorgasboard of imfo providing one knows the basic topic
could you tell us what the topic is that your trying to locate or is it a top secret ??lol
and maybe someone might have it written down in their notes or in their favorites list
cheers barry

It's not only here, over at Pradopoint the members recommend searching that forum through Google.

If the search feature doesn't give adequate results i resort to a site specific Google search as follows:

site:exploroz.com ????

where ???? being the word required. This will result in a search of results only from www.exploroz.com . The search results can be refined on the left menu of Google.

May be helpful in the meantime ;)

Andrew

Robin, I also have trouble with EO search. It is most unreliable and seems to have worsened since the recent site upgrade. sometimes it produces no result from common content.

As a test I searched for "help", a common expression in thread titles. It produced a result, the oldest being in 2003 but as I selected 'increasing' pages it began to revert to more recent dates.

As you say, the date limiter has disappeared, although not from the help text.
Normally, I have used the search panel at the top of the threads page, but if you click on the highlighted and underlined word "help" in a thread, it brings up a different search panel....... which works no better. As has been said, Google searches ExplorOz better than the forum panel.

How good would it be to have a subscription button where all your old posts are listed so you can easily revisit them to check old info or add further followups. It's a feature I use often on other sites that doesn't have the search issues.
Cheers Craig...........