How to search forum

wesleydax · Mar 8, 2015

Is there a way to link words together in the search option? I am by no means a computer guru, and have tried to search some things. Thanks

Unknown · Mar 8, 2015

Yea, I've not had the best luck searching either but I'm sure I'm doing it wrong. Sometimes I have luck Googling the term and it points back to CB with what I'm looking for.

wesleydax · Mar 8, 2015

That's what I've been doing. There's tons of great info on this site if i can just find it

ChrisC74 · Mar 8, 2015

In the Google search page enter what you are looking for and include classic broncos - nine times out of ten is will point back to a useful post on this site. For me it works better than the site search function.

No Hay · Mar 8, 2015

wesleydax said:
Is there a way to link words together in the search option? I am by no means a computer guru, and have tried to search some things. Thanks

I've thought the same thing about two related words. Searching 20 pages can be time consuming!

sykanr0ng · Mar 8, 2015

ChrisC74 said:
In the Google search page enter what you are looking for and include classic broncos - nine times out of ten is will point back to a useful post on this site. For me it works better than the site search function.

Use site:classicbroncos.com in your Google search if you want results only from the forum.

half cab · Mar 8, 2015

I generally put what I'm searching for on here in parentheses and have never had a problem.

TN1776 · Mar 8, 2015

sykanr0ng said:
Use site:classicbroncos.com in your Google search if you want results only from the forum.

That is exactly how I do it - gets around forum minimum search character limits, etc. Surrounding multiple words in quotes helps too. I rely on search engines all day every day at work and that trick has proven super valuable. So to modify the above example:

site:classicbroncos.com "bronco problem x" or whatever...

Tonka7777 · Mar 8, 2015

To search for a word combination or multiple words together, insert a + sign between the 2 words. For example: engine + harness.

EBGeek · Oct 30, 2015

Is there a way to request this be made a sticky? It seems an inordinate amount of folks either can't (or won't) find what they're looking for through the normal search function. I personally find the 'site:classicbroncos.com my stuff is broke' works wonders over the site search. I dare say there isn't much that can't be found on this site with the right search words.

I was going to actually create a new post as a PSA, until I googled 'site:classicbroncos.com google search' and this post came up.

EBGeek · Oct 30, 2015

Oh and to add to what Tonka said above, you can also eliminate with the '-' function.

Googling 'site:classicbroncos.com EFI Conversion -Explorer' will return every match for EFI Conversion that DOESN'T mention Explorer in the thread. Bear in mind, that's a pretty strong limiting factor, so use the power wisely. But sometimes your results get muddled in with other stuff, so its a nice feature to have.

Prizefighter · Oct 30, 2015

Google is a much more efficient search engine. It usually brings up a thread from here that has the info you need. Searching here is next to impossible, I guess because there are too many threads?

sykanr0ng · Oct 30, 2015

Prizefighter said:
Google is a much more efficient search engine. It usually brings up a thread from here that has the info you need. Searching here is next to impossible, I guess because there are too many threads?

It has been my experience that forum search is usually junk.
Not just this forum, not just this forum software, but every one I have tried.

stupidboy · Oct 30, 2015

Ive never had any luck with this!!

EBGeek · Oct 30, 2015

Pat, the good news is once you've typed 'site:classicBroncos.com' into Google, it'll remember it from then on. All you gotta do is type what you're looking for after it...

BroncoOwner.me · Oct 30, 2015

Wonder is we could get Jon to give us a page like this for searching

http://reedweb.net/classicbroncos.search.html

Personally I find this very useful for finding stuff in the forums. This is using DuckDuckGo search instead of Google but seems to produce really good results.

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