[Duma]

Sure I'm being dense, but when I used the search function to look for "scary page of the day", it didn't find the correct topic. Spent ages fiddling around with the advanced search options etc, eventually had to just look back through the pages in shootin the shit until I got to it.

Any tips on use?

[Bubba]

It's because the search index was destroyed when the forum was moved to different software.

I'm not sure what the solution is to this, but is something that would be helpful to get working.

Any recent posts (ie since the move to SMF) should show up.

[andy_e]

How come there's only ever (seemingly) one page of results?

[Bubba]

I've just got 9 pages from a search, so I reckon it's just what you're searching on.

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

I was struggling using the built in search, looking for the Peak Pubs thread. However if you use Google with 'ukbouldering' and your search functions seems to work well.

[slackline]

I was struggling using the built in search, looking for the Peak Pubs thread. However if you use Google with 'ukbouldering' and your search functions seems to work well.

Just make it a site specific search by including 'site: ukbouldering.com', e.g. type in...peak pubs site:ukbouldering.com.

This works for virtually any site and is very handy (the GNU/linux forums I use have a particularly poor search function).

The one down side is that Google can sometimes be a day or so behind (but then active threads tend to be near the top of forums anyway).

[Bubba]

I should probably just replace the built-in search with a google powered on - it does a better job and it probably speed up the forum a little. The search tables take up a lot of database space.

[slackline]

Done that before for a web-site I wrote, pretty easy...all the info you need to get one in there.  As I say though, there is a slight lag as the 'spiders' only pop by every so often so the most recent topics are sometimes not returned in searches.

[Bubba]

I think a few days delay is acceptable for the search function. As you say the most recent topics are usually to hand anyway.

[Stubbs]

I found when using the search function the most important thing when using the search function was to be on the index page when you started, otherwise it only seemed to search the sub section you were navigating from.