Use the search!

[Mrski1]

Is it just me or has the amount of seemingly, to new users at least, aggresive sounding posts suggesting everyone should use the search becomming more common, to me this is offputting, if the search function was better and produced more specific results then perfect, but as it is it produces too many results to sift through unless you have nothing better to do.

Is it possible to improve the search feature?

 

[m0rk]

is it possible to improve your search terms?

You'll find what you're looking for if you try (and use advanced search)

More recently the Tags have much improved this (assuming people use the right words in their title)

 

[Brummy]

seems m0rk beat me to this as I was disturbed by the tv (Derby/Manure ) .. the search facility as m0rk says is only as good as the person using it, if you search in depth, you can gain a lot more finite information.

and the general derisory remarks from the long term users is generally due to the fact that its most likely to be a question thats been asked by newbies etc tenfold over the preceeding months
HTH

 

[bizzaboy]

Must admit, I find the SEARCH to be really useful, and as has been stated, anything you could want to know has probably already been discussed before at some point in the past - therefore a carefully worded search usually brings up the goods .......

One thing I did find quite interesting recently, a SMART SEARCH User started posting, who put links to other threads that answered the originators questions in some Threads (probably by performing a search!)... Useful! However, a few days laster even that User got banned! Go figure!

 

[DPJ]

........the search function ...........produces too many results to sift through unless you have nothing better to do.

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This is, to a great extent, the result of people starting yet another post on a topic, rather than using the search / contributing to an existing thread....