treeafodo
Austin
This is from another forum that I am on, but I modified it for this forum. I figured it would be a good resource to help cut down "I tried searching, but nothing showed up" posts.
We have a Search button, and a Search function for the board, but it isn't very good. It removes words that it sees as common or too short, but are a critical part of the search. It doesn't allow for search by relevancy, as in real relevancy. You mostly have to do a lot of hunting and pecking in the search results to come up with what you might be looking for.
Add the two above issues together, and you can easily take all day to find only bad information.
But I have good news! You can improve your results and search speed by up to 15% by switching to Google!
As in Google.com.
Go to Google.com, and in the search box, type: site:clubintegra.com
Then a space.
Then start typing what you are looking for.
Like this:
site:clubintegra.com Engine swap
Your Google search results will be ONLY from this forum, and it will use all the power and intelligence of the best search engine in the world.
Additional Google Search tip:
If you are trying to search within a specific thread for information threads that turn out to be very long, add the name of the thread to your search in quotes. This will not restrict the search to just that thread, however the results from that thread will be bias'ed towards the top of the Google search results, and usually be the first results.
Example:
Site:clubintegra.com "Funny picture thread" cats
Additional Google Search tip:
If you are getting lots of noise in your result set for some reason, or things not related to your problem, add negative qualifiers to your search string. For example searching site:clubintegra.com alternator -starter will only give you results that DO contain alternator, and DON'T contain 'starter'.
Often, it may be helpful to use this with:
-tagged to remove the links that are only a list of threads with the tags
We have a Search button, and a Search function for the board, but it isn't very good. It removes words that it sees as common or too short, but are a critical part of the search. It doesn't allow for search by relevancy, as in real relevancy. You mostly have to do a lot of hunting and pecking in the search results to come up with what you might be looking for.
Add the two above issues together, and you can easily take all day to find only bad information.
But I have good news! You can improve your results and search speed by up to 15% by switching to Google!
As in Google.com.
Go to Google.com, and in the search box, type: site:clubintegra.com
Then a space.
Then start typing what you are looking for.
Like this:
site:clubintegra.com Engine swap
Your Google search results will be ONLY from this forum, and it will use all the power and intelligence of the best search engine in the world.
Additional Google Search tip:
If you are trying to search within a specific thread for information threads that turn out to be very long, add the name of the thread to your search in quotes. This will not restrict the search to just that thread, however the results from that thread will be bias'ed towards the top of the Google search results, and usually be the first results.
Example:
Site:clubintegra.com "Funny picture thread" cats
Additional Google Search tip:
If you are getting lots of noise in your result set for some reason, or things not related to your problem, add negative qualifiers to your search string. For example searching site:clubintegra.com alternator -starter will only give you results that DO contain alternator, and DON'T contain 'starter'.
Often, it may be helpful to use this with:
-tagged to remove the links that are only a list of threads with the tags