Search within subforum

[Carnivac]

Hello,

Long time lurker!

Could anyone please tell me how to search within a subforum?

I'd like to search within Car Buying for any topics where the OP has mentioned active/adaptive cruise.

Thank you very much :-)

[Big Al.]

I'm not aware that this function is available, IIRC search only works globally.

[NGRhodes]

Not 100% accurate results, but putting the sub-forum name in quotes works pretty well in the search box, eg:

"Car Buying" active OR adaptive cruise

[bigandclever]

Easier just to google, PH search isn’t great.

siteistonheads.com "car buying" active adaptive cruise

Edit the is colon p, if it’s not clear.

[afrere_ph]

Hey Carnivac - as the other folks have said, PH search isn't great right now (we had to retire the old search months ago due to performance problems) - that's not to say it's not on the roadmap, we just need to tackle some other things first. That said, given that Google indexes our content, you can achieve a fair amount with searches there, and we have included an embedded Google search to make this a little more accessible: https://www.pistonheads.com/search



...then applying some standard Google search techniques, like quotes around exact phrases, plus to include search terms e.g.



... you'll see that the results returned are generally pretty good:



So yeah, hope that helps.. we appreciate this search mechanism lacks what you would expect for a Forum like this (date ranges, sub-forum selection, etc etc), and we will get there.. we just need to fit it in to all the work going on to re-vamp PH!

Cheers

[bigandclever]

In terms of date ranges, you can use before: and after: in the search box

eg ...
"car buying" active adaptive cruise after:2018
... brings back results from 1 Jan 2019 onwards

or...
“car buying" active adaptive cruise after:2018-03-01 before:2018-05-30
... date format is yyyy-mm-dd


Clunky, but it’s there.

[Carnivac]

Much appreciated guys. Thank you very much. :-)