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1. 

   Catopsilia
   Member

   I find the "Search" box at the top of the page utterly unhelpful. I don't know why it is like that.
   It searches for the words entered, starting in the most recent posts, and displays each post containing those words, no matter whether they form the subject of the post or not.
   Usually, it does not find any post on that topic at all.
   Even entering the title of a forum thread does not locate that thread.
   The only good feature is that the search results page includes a suggestion to try Google search. This yields a search restricted to the ATA forums, and it works perfectly.

   I now enter a random word in the "Search" box, so I can access the Google search as a second step.

   I wonder whether this problem can be fixed?

   Posted Monday 21 May 2012 @ 9:28:14 am from IP #
2. 

   TonyT
   Member

   Agreed Catopsilia.

   Typically all the results at the top of the list are useless.

   Any better results are in the bottom section.

   Thanks for the tip about using the Google search.

   Posted Monday 21 May 2012 @ 11:21:38 pm from IP #
3. 

   Jeffbloggs
   Member

   I concur. Maybe they should just set the search to google permanently, no shame in that, that's what they are good at after all. Alternatively you can use google search for any particular website by entering the following before the search term: "site:" and then "www.ata.org.au". This will give you search results in google straight away. I often use it for other sites as well. Just change the url accordingly.

   Posted Tuesday 22 May 2012 @ 3:28:28 am from IP #
4. 

   gazmo88
   Member

   NB note that there should be no space between the "site:" and the "www.ata.org.au"
   e.g.
   site:www.ata.org.au SIPS

   does what you would expect but

   site:<space>www.ata.org.au SIPS

   Does something else.

   Cheers

   Posted Tuesday 22 May 2012 @ 12:46:29 pm from IP #
5. 

   TonyT
   Member

   Lance

   As was suggested by Jeffbloggs, please will you "set the search to google permanently" ?

   Posted Sunday 26 May 2013 @ 4:44:27 am from IP #

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