Is Search Wacko Here?

[kaneohe]

Searched for various things and got nonsense results......at least based on the Titles found. Tried using google w/ site: (specified) and got reasonable results.

 

[REWahoo]

Can you give us some examples of what you searched for?

 

[kaneohe]

amazon.com store card, 529 plans, estimated taxes.....seemingly anything would work here

 

[REWahoo]

One suggestion that will help get better results - check the option to "Show results as threads" vs show as posts.

 

[kaneohe]

One suggestion that will help get better results - check the option to "Show results as threads" vs show as posts.

never noticed that before...but that is the default.....maybe the forum doesn't like Macs

 

[REWahoo]

never noticed that before...but that is the default.....maybe the forum doesn't like Macs

I'm on a PC and my default is show as posts.

I agree the Google search usually does a better job unless you happen to know who made the post and can search by user name.

 

[kaneohe]

just verified: threads is the default; went and toggled it anyway....threads to posts and back to threads.........same results. Will flee to google again.

 

[Dreamer]

Searched for various things and got nonsense results......at least based on the Titles found. Tried using google w/ site: (specified) and got reasonable results.

Glad it is not just me. I am always amazed when people can come up with old posts or info using Search. I am using a Mac also.

 

[kaneohe]

Glad it is not just me. I am always amazed when people can come up with old posts or info using Search. I am using a Mac also.

Do you know this trick I learned from somewhere......instead of using the native search built in to a particular site, go to google.com , input what you are searching for and then append w/o the quotes "site: early-retirement.org"
Usually works better for me than most native search functions.

 

[audreyh1]

I do know that you can search on a word, and not find anything, but you search on the plural, and a bunch of posts came up. This happened to me lately and it surprised me.

 

[ItDontMeanAThing]

Do you know this trick I learned from somewhere......instead of using the native search built in to a particular site, go to google.com , input what you are searching for and then append w/o the quotes "site: early-retirement.org"
Usually works better for me than most native search functions.

+1
When trying a site that's new to me, I give their search function a try. Google has always been better.