How to search the Forum?

[Scottish]

I am looking for some tips on the best way of using the Forum Search features.
When searching on Google if you enclose a string of words in quotation marks it will search for matches for the entire string and therefore helps to narrow down the results. However this does not seem to work on the Forum search and it searches for each separate word on its own (not as a string) resulting in too many irrelevant results to be looked at to find if it has come up with the best answers.
If anybody has any good tips to share with the rest of us, it would be very usefull.

Scottish

 

[aardvark1]

When you click on the Forum Search tab, look at the bottom for ....Advanced...

This may give you the additional search criteria that you need.


Have fun,

 

[itareus]

Scottish,

Oddly enough, often the best way of searching the Trainz forums is to use Google. Type in "trainz discussion forums" and then you search terms - e.g "trainz discussion forums textures". You may need to go to "more results from forums.auran.com" link.

The forum search facilities are a bit limited but amongst other things the "+" sign can be used to string words together, but not as phrases....

There was a post a while ago explaining the forum search facilites, but I can't find it !

Cheers

 

[Dermmy]

As Itareus says, use Google for all but the simplest searches. If you use Google's 'Advanced Search' option you can add "http://forums.auran.com/trainz/" to the 'Search Within Site or Domain' field and get significantly more accurate results than those yielded by the Forum's search engine...

Andy

 

[rweber95]

Google Searches

You can also use this format on Google searches:
"What you're searching for goes between the quotes" site:forums.auran.com

Bob

 

[Scottish]

Thanks for the tips. I never thought that Google would be better at searching the Forum than its own search engine. The tips for refining the Google search are very useful.

Scottish