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GarageQueen

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2,295 posts

275 months

Friday 13th September 2013
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What ever happened to the excellent search engine where you could search by forum category and it highlighted your search terms? Not a fan of the google search

paulrussell

2,306 posts

190 months

Friday 13th September 2013
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The search function kept breaking the forum, so it was turned off.

FourWheelDrift

92,242 posts

313 months

Friday 13th September 2013
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Go to google.

in the search box type in your words, if it's a phrase put them between speech marks "..............." and add Pistonheads onto the end.

Eg.


If you just type in a very general word + pistonheads you will get a lot of results, but you can use the google search tools to specify when it was posted, including a custom range.

But as always if you are more specific with your search criteria you will get better results.

MattDell

3,302 posts

184 months

Friday 13th September 2013
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FourWheelDrift said:
Go to google.

in the search box type in your words, if it's a phrase put them between speech marks "..............." and add Pistonheads onto the end.

Eg.


If you just type in a very general word + pistonheads you will get a lot of results, but you can use the google search tools to specify when it was posted, including a custom range.

But as always if you are more specific with your search criteria you will get better results.
Excellent post. Even better, use site:pistonheads.com and google will only search within the PH domain. smile

LordGrover

34,156 posts

241 months

Friday 13th September 2013
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If you know which forum it's in it's useful to add the f number.



E.g. if you're looking for something in website feedback include f=24
i.e.
site:www.pistonheads.com +f=24 search


Which happily takes you here: click. wink


GarageQueen

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2,295 posts

275 months

Sunday 15th September 2013
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thanks a lot