Another search rant

[LCHIEN]

One member requested the location of a post regarding handwheel (crank) repair. specifically one by Jim Frye using lead shot with epoxy to fill the handle.

It took me like five tries to find it

I finally found this just looking at all posts by Jim Frye (fortunatley he only made 40 posts) dated Dec 2005

http://www.bt3central.com/showthread.php?t=16750

Among tries that did not work:

terms "lead shot epoxy" and author Jim Frye
terms "lead shot epoxy"
terms "lead shot"

all three of those should have worked looking at the actual text in the post.
Why didn't they?
I have done some searches with specific terms that would have been in the post and not located it. This is a specific example where I did find it but search tems that should have worked did not. all other criteria in advanced search wide opn (any date, any forum , etc.)

What's wrong with vBulletin search?

[Tom Miller]

I've seen other vBulletin sites that have a "Google Site Search" option in addition to the standard search option that works much (ok, infinitely) better. Is that a possibility here?

Regards,
Tom

[jnesmith]

I've seen other vBulletin sites that have a "Google Site Search" option in addition to the standard search option that works much (ok, infinitely) better. Is that a possibility here?

Regards,
Tom

If you have the google toolbar installed, you can use it to search "current site".

[Tom Miller]

If you have the google toolbar installed, you can use it to search "current site".

Yeah, I wondered about that -- I've been using IE7 lately, and while I have the default search set to use Google, I haven't installed the Google toolbar on this one yet.

I somehow got the impression that this Google interaction with BT3Central was "turned off", though. Is it working for you?

Regards,
Tom