Search function?

[yellowtang]

Am I going mad?!

Yes I’m an idiot - but please put me out of my misery and tell me where it is?!

Thanks :-)

[Shaw Tarse]

Top of the page?

[yellowtang]

Shaw Tarse said:

Top of the page?

Where?! I can’t see it.....

I fear I’m going mad! I’m using a iPhone & iPad if that makes any difference?

[Shaw Tarse]

Are you using device in landscape or portrait?

[yellowtang]

[yellowtang]

Screenshots of both portrait and landscape - I cannot see a search box/tab?

[Scrump]

If you switch out of mobile view and load the desktop site then it will be there at the top of the page. It does not seem to show in the mobile view.

[yellowtang]

Scrump said:

If you switch out of mobile view and load the desktop site then it will be there at the top of the page. It does not seem to show in the mobile view.

I’ve tried selecting request desktop mode and it still doesn’t bring up a search tab or box?

[Shaw Tarse]

[markyb_lcy]

I've found it to be a huge annoyance that the search function is not available on the mobile site ... what is that all about? Flipping between desktop and mobile versions when on a mobile phone, just to do a search, is really rather impractical.

[yellowtang]

Weirdly, after I request desktop website - it doesn’t look any different?

[DaveH23]

I've always found using Google's generic search terms the best when searching any site.

I.e Pistonheads + RS6 will search for the word RS6 on the Pistonheads site. (This may fine other results where Pistonheads is included as well but generally works really well.

If you want to be very specific Google Site:Pistonheads.com + RS6 and it will only search pustonheads rather than the web in general.

This can be used with the - symbol to emit results.

Works much better than the internal search.

Edited by DaveH23 on Friday 24th January 13:47

[yellowtang]

So this is supposedly on desktop mode and I’m in landscape mode...

[Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area]

You’re wasting your time it doesn’t really work anyway. Just do what DaveH23 says and you should find what you need

[vaud]

Use google. It's much much better.

[dhutch]

Why has such a major forum;
- Not got a fully functioning mobile platform.
- Not got a properly functioning detach engine.

This is a basic has a car fitting down a road and having a gag lighter socket.

Come ON pistonheads.


Daniel

[vaud]

It's frankly pointless for any forum to invest in a search engine when Google will always be better.

Just open google and use "siteistonheads.com " and then your search term. You can refine from there.

There are many things a free forum could be doing but replicating functionality that is available for free is not one of them?

[Jack Mansfield]

vaud said:

It's frankly pointless for any forum to invest in a search engine when Google will always be better.

Just open google and use "siteistonheads.com " and then your search term. You can refine from there.

There are many things a free forum could be doing but replicating functionality that is available for free is not one of them?

^

Google is our friend.

[markyb_lcy]

Feedback forum.

Feedback = would like to see a forum search feature that works on mobile.

For those of you who want to provide feedback on google ... why not try googles feedback system?

Fact is, there is a search function here, I'm reasonably happy with it, however my feedback is that it should be accessible on the mobile site.

[markyb_lcy]

vaud said:

It's frankly pointless for any forum to invest in a search engine when Google will always be better.

Just open google and use "siteistonheads.com " and then your search term. You can refine from there.

There are many things a free forum could be doing but replicating functionality that is available for free is not one of them?

The functionality is already there on the full browser site. Adding a link to the button on the mobile site is probably a half hour job for someone who does it as a living. (and I'm including testing and bureaucracy in that).