How to search the site?

[Nick Clarke 3Participant @nickclarke3]

There were two search engines embedded in the old site but I haven’t yet found out how to do so on this new one – looked at help topics but didn’t find anything useful ther.

Any chance of a run through?

Thanks,

Nick

[Roderick JenkinsParticipant @roderickjenkins93242]

Nick,

The search box seems to appear only on the forum home page.  Press forums on either the blue or green banners and the search box should appear near the top.

Rod

[Nick Clarke 3Participant @nickclarke3]

Thanks

[Nick Clarke 3]

On 24 October 2023 at 10:47 Nick Clarke 3 Said:

There were two search engines embedded in the old site but I haven’t yet found out how to do so on this new one – looked at help topics but didn’t find anything useful ther.

Any chance of a run through?

Thanks,

Nick

The embedded search, only one, is better than the old in that it searches everything, not just titles.  Otherwise it’s basic.

The old forum’s second search added this site’s name to the users search term and then called Google.  This can be replicated from the browser:   in your address bar or Search Box try “site:www.model-engineer.co.uk Nick Clarke”

This tells Google (and most other search engines) to search for Nick Clarke in http://www.model-engineer.co.uk

Don’t expect perfection.  At the moment Google may not return a good answer because the forum was/is blocking bots, or asking them to come back later.  This is to stop bots overloading the new site by reading all 600,000+ posts at high speed.  Google’s search index may not be up-to-date.  If so should come good after this site’s performance has been tuned and bots are allowed in.

Dave

[bernard towersParticipant @bernardtowers37738]

Can someone please tell me how to find “What did you do today 2023” as I was going to post something but fell at the first hurdle!

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

See Dave’s post above yours, just change Nick Clarke for What…………..2023

[bernard towers]

On bernard towers Said:

Can someone please tell me how to find “What did you do today 2023” as I was going to post something but fell at the first hurdle!

Yes it’s a pain, unless you know it’s in The Tea Room and actually located here.
How a visitor is supposed to find it, I’ve no idea.
The site badly needs a better search facility, which has been discussed several times.

Daft as it sounds, the easiest way is to leave the site, and open a search in a commercial search engine, such as Google, which even allows for advanced search facilities; click on the first link in this sentence.

Bill

[bernard towersParticipant @bernardtowers37738]

Thanks Bill, Id never have believed it or had a hope in hell of finding it.

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