Needing forum search advice.

[WebGuy]

Hey all,

At the risk of sounding like a RANT....

I hate, hate, HATE searching PHP forums for anything. (I'm not just complaining about ECF, but ALL PHP based forums)

I either get no results or gazillions of unrelated results. I've stared at the "advanced search" page like a deer caught in headlights for many more minutes than I would like to admit.

For the last few questions I've had, I haven't even BOTHERED to search because I know it will be another few seconds of my life I will never get back and I have too much to do to waste it on the crappy search engine all PHP based forums seem to have.

Is there a SEARCH tips and tricks for ECF that someone can point me to?

Mark

 

[leeshor]

You WILL get better and (more than likely) more relevant results by using Google for the search. use the following syntax -- "search terms" site:e-cigarette-forums\"subforum"

For this subforum, to search for keyword it would look roughly like this -- keyword site:Site Feedback and Help

Look at the actual link rather than the text

 

[WebGuy]

Will try that. I am rather masterful at searching with Google.

Great tip.

Thanks,
Mark