A friend on another site posted a trick for searching your favorite forum.
If your forum's search engine finds too little or too many responses,
you can use Google to search your forum by simply including the forum name in your search.
For example, searching this forum for "45 acp loads" turned up 2901 responses.
The search engine ignored "45" and searched "acp + loads".
Next, a Google search for "45 acp loads rossi-rifleman.com" found Tuco's post about his favorite 45 acp loads.
The trick has worked well on several different forums.
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Re: Search Engine Helper
Rugerforum.com has suffered a failed search system for years so much they have the Google instructions posted instead of fixing their issue.
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Re: Search Engine Helper
Thanks for posting this. The forums search is a simple word search of partricular fields of the database. Limits are placed on word length to prevent running the database to a grinding halt. Google and other search engines use a different logic and that is why their bots are allow to browse the forum. The format I use for search is:
"rossi rifleman: the search string"
It will find just about anything you look for.
"rossi rifleman: the search string"
It will find just about anything you look for.
Michael