You Search Engine, use the Muppet?

There are already so many threads on here about that.... use the search engine!
Well I keep trying... but obviously there is something I'm not doing right.

How I work: Choose a category (bikes n bits), type in "tyres", select 'threads only'... press enter!

It gives me a list of threads, in which not one single title has the 'Keyword' in it????

So before being shot down for asking a question like "anyone got any good list of puncture proof tyres?" and told to use the search engine.....

Anyone got any good tips on how it works?

https://www.londonfgss.com/thread5985.html

Type in Puncture.

Works for me..
http://www.londonfgss.com/search.php?searchid=4054826

i just did what you did and all the title's had "tyres" in. are you searching by tag?
http://www.londonfgss.com/search.php?searchid=4054829 is my result

OP's not changing the dropdown list under the seaarch term when using advanced search..

Search Entire Posts vs. Search Titles Only

Needs to be on the second one.

thanks for the link Andy.

But I still don't understand why the word 'tyre' does not appear in any of the thread titles?

Maybe it's just a skill one develops, but it does seem a little odd. Will I have to learn to search by slightly connected terms?

ie: Frame recommendations..... by tubing etc?

Anyway thanks again for the link.... someones put some real effort in (Ga2G is obviously very usefully and pragmatically OCD)!

There's an engine?!? I thought VB did all our searches manually... OUTFSC...

But I still don't understand why the word 'tyre' does not appear in any of the thread titles?

You're doing something wrong. Are you using the Advanced Search screen?
Make sure the dropdown under your search terms is set to Titles Only.

Thanks Hippy. After some real 'reserach' .... it seems that that if i type "Tyres" into the search box inside 'Bikes n Bits' ..... not one title includes the word tyres. But If I use the 'Search' Tab on the top Tool bar kind of thing... a completely different story. I presumed it would be a more related search, to be inside the category that was about bits!!

Anyway... I'm learning. By the way, what does "OUTFSC" mean? Is it comedically abusive? Or is teenslain looking to online date me?

Utfs... ;)

If you struggle with the site search (which only finds threads, not individual posts) go here:
http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search?hl=en

Then in 'Search within a site or domain:' type londonfgss.com

Then type what you want to search for into 'all these words'.

Alternatively advanced users can just type:

search string site:londonfgss.com

into Google.

Tbh, this is just basic internet skillz innit.

Anyway thanks again for the link.... someones put some real effort in (Ga2G is obviously very usefully and pragmatically OCD)!

I'm Obsessively Compulsively Disorderly? Surely the opposite is true.

Just what till Oliver gets a hold of you.

;)

Anyway. Racist.

If you struggle with the site search (which only finds threads, not individual posts) go here:
http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search?hl=en

Then in 'Search within a site or domain:' type londonfgss.com

Then type what you want to search for into 'all these words'.

Alternatively advanced users can just type:

search string site:londonfgss.com

into Google.

Tbh, this is just basic internet skillz innit.

Yeah.... if you're 12! I didn't have a computer at school.. I have to learn this stuff at some point! I was not born into this era where people buy there even their food online!! My first bike proper bike was a brand new Eddie Merckx (Kids Size), I think he'd just lost the last tour..... ;-)

But thanks again, that was actually very useful!

the correct term is "Race-Shallist". The kids round here use it all the time. I think it means you're quite up for having a race?

clearly this thread should be in 'forum help and testing'.

racialist

I'm actually interested, as to WHY do people assume that the topic they wish to discuss, is something nobody has thought of before?

Is it a question of vanity?
An over-estimation of one's own intelligence?
A lack of intelligence?
New to the internet?

I resume threads that are 2 years old, rather than start another thread about exactly the same topic. Is that bad form now? It really is startling, how many threads repeat other entirely adequate threads.

This thread will be a fucking excellent resource. When new people want to figure out how to search for things, all they have to do is put the title of this thread in the search box and then this will come up with all the information they need.

Balki, you're a genius. I got ridiculed by you and then incinerated by everyone else for some of the questions I asked all because I skimmed over the nursery section and dived straight into things. Tough love from everyone, but love nevertheless!

actually people now have a great excuse

i can't even find the search function on this new dratted upgraded forum

there should be a search function to help people like me find the search function

actually people now have a great excuse

i can't even find the search function on this new dratted upgraded forum

there should be a search function to help people like me find the search function

Top right on every page dicki.

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Just noticed that! Nice.

Top right on every page dicki.

Pwned.

I didn't bother since he was most likely taking the piss.