Search engine is as bad as it ever was

[hidetheelephants]

Why is this? Is it like British rail cheese sandwiches, an immutable feature of the product? Despite using many variations of my search criteria it won't find my heart's desire.

[Scrump]

Search is provided by Google, after many complaints about the PH in house search engine and many demands for Google!

I think it is a step backwards as we can no longer search specific forums, but it is what the masses wanted.

[sixor8]

If you put "siteistonheads.com" after your search criteria, you should find what you want. It's what I've done for years.


Above, after the e of site, a colon : followed by a small p gets replaced by that emoji.

[egomeister]

Scrump said:

Search is provided by Google, after many complaints about the PH in house search engine and many demands for Google!

I think it is a step backwards as we can no longer search specific forums, but it is what the masses wanted.

Historically it would have been an upgrade, but google is shocking now so it seems we are stuffed either way.

I'll use this as another opportunity to request a "My posts only" button in the style of the "OP posts only" one, as it would make things a lot easier to find stuff buried in some of the longer threads.