Alfa Romeo Owners Club of Australia Forum

General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: k76 on March 16, 2009, 10:40:17 AM

Title: Search function
Post by: k76 on March 16, 2009, 10:40:17 AM
Is it just me, or is the search function on this site useless? I get a lot of results not containing the word I search for, just wondering if the problem is my computer or the forum
Title: Re: Search function
Post by: alfagtv58 on March 16, 2009, 11:08:12 AM
Yup, had the same issue......I gave up on it a long time ago (and stopped directing frequent questions to this function!!)
Title: Re: Search function
Post by: k76 on March 16, 2009, 11:36:07 AM
Ok, so it's not me then. Thanks!
Title: Re: Search function
Post by: Evan Bottcher on March 16, 2009, 08:57:23 PM
Yep the search in SMF Forum sucks.  Sheldon has been giving me sh*t about it for ages.  I'm looking into whether it has improved in later versions of the software...

However!  I recommend using google.  If you put "site:alfaclubvic.org.au" in your google search, it will restrict results to those from our website including the forum.

Examples:  search for giulietta seats site:alfaclubvic.org.au (http://www.google.com.au/search?q=giulietta+seats+site%3Aalfaclubvic.org.au&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a)

This works pretty well.  I should alter the search box at the top of the page just to link to google....