Forum Search Question - Toyota Tundra Forums : Tundra Solutions Forum

MrBeanley · #1 (**permalink**) 06-01-2009, 05:32 PM

I've been a member here on TS for a good, long while now. I've noticed lots posts being answered by "did you do a search for that", and various less-friendly variations of that same phrase.

Is there a way to do an "AND" search on this site? I've tried every combination I can think of, but to no avail! For example: I want to find posts related to "2004 Doublecab Headers". But, instead of finding posts with either that exact phrase or all three of those keywords, I get back a BILLION posts that contain either 2004 or Doublecab or Headers! Most decidedly not what I'm looking for here!

I've tried the advanced search page, using "+" between the search keys, "and" between the search keys, etc. Nothing.

Any ideas?

And please, don't tell me that I could have found it by doing a search on "Search"!

Cheers.

Tundradrenalin · #2 (**permalink**) 06-01-2009, 06:35 PM

MrBeanley, have you tried the Advanced Search?

That should lean out the search fodder. Also, you can choose which forums you want to search in using the adv search.

MrBeanley · #3 (**permalink**) 06-01-2009, 06:57 PM

I sure did. From my original post: "I've tried the advanced search page, using "+" between the search keys, "and" between the search keys, etc. Nothing."

Tundradrenalin · #4 (**permalink**) 06-01-2009, 09:25 PM

Oh man, you certainly did. Sorry I missed that.

Ok, I've tried it again and can't get the same results as you. I just searched all forums for 2004 doublecab headers and only got 4 threads in the results. No commas, ands, ors, or buts, just the three words. Ironically, the first thread in the results was this one.

Last year, JustBeNme had a nice tutorial on advanced searching. But I cannot find it.

DaveGS4 · #5 (**permalink**) 06-01-2009, 10:13 PM

Mr B,

Sometimes I give up on vbulletin search for stuff like this and use google which allows more boolean operators.

You can search a forum by using the 'site:' feature. Not sure if I have the operators right, but you can adjust them using their cheat sheet

Example of what you'd paste into the google search
2004+Doublecab+Headers site:www.tundrasolutions.com/forums/

It only works on forum areas that are visible to unregistered / unlogged members where google crawlers can catalog and isn't real-time (only as current as last time forum was crawled), but has found some stuff I could never hunt down using Vbulletin alone.