Upgrade The Search Function....?

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BlownEarDrums

Discussion Starter · Feb 24, 2011

Curious since the forum has been sold over to a large and profitable company. Any chance we can get the almost useless search function updated? LS1Tech.com has a pretty decent search function. Would be nice to be able to search for phrases including small words etc. Maybe find a way to not search sigs as well.....

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Scuba Steve

· #2 · Feb 26, 2011 (Edited)

Just for anyone that doesn't know this trick yet:

An alternative to using the site's search is to just go to google, and preface your search with

site:http://www.impalassforum.com/vBulletin/

Then put a space after it and type in what you're searching for. This will only return results from the forum, and tends to work a little better in my experience

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GreenHornet

· #3 · Feb 26, 2011

^^^^^^^ That's what I do most of the time.

once apon a time the forum had a really good search till the forum was changed to Vbulletin.

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rematar

· #4 · Feb 26, 2011

BlownEarDrums said:
Would be nice to be able to search for phrases including small words etc.

In the meantime, you can put an * after 3 letter words: LT1*.

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GreenHornet

· #5 · Feb 26, 2011

rematar said:
, you can put an * after 3 letter words: LT1*.

That somewhat works. Gives you way too much crap your not searching for though.
Google is the most accurate way to search the forum.

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Bob Loblaw

· #6 · Mar 12, 2011

Good tips here to help out this site's lame-o search engine

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GreenHornet

· #7 · Mar 13, 2011

Just to stress how screwed up the search is around here.
I searched " rear main seal replacement".
"no matches found" in any of the forums.
Then I searched "rear main seal" and sure enough on the first page a thread titled " Rear main seal replacement advice" . Seriouslycwm3

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