Does anyone else have problems using the site's search function?

I've noticed a few times when I try and do a search, I just get a bunch of nonsense results that have nothing to do with what I was searching for.

I've tried searching using "specific quotes", I've tried being logged in under my username, tried searching being a guest, all the same. I've tried clearing my cookies and leaving the site and coming back.

Anyone else have the same problem?  :dunno:

Perhaps you could tell one of us what you are searching for and we can look it up for you. I'd offer, but it's 5 o'clock and I'm not allowed on the kid's computer at home. So, I'm offering this suggestion in hopes that a fellow good samaritan GS'er will search for you. Otherwise, if I don't get to sneak onto my kid's computer this weekend, you'd have to wait til Monday for me to search for ya.

Happy 4th of July!

i agree.  the search function isn't the best

Thank you. But it doesn't seem to matter what I search for. Sometimes it will work, but most of the time it doesn't.

Who knows..maybe it is an "ID 10 T" error. THat is why I wanted to see if anyone else had the problem.

its just the software.  if u search tank it will give u any post with the word tank in it.  be it the title or the body of the post..

HERE is a similar topic.  (I dug it up again by searching for the word "prolific".  :mrgreen: )

John Bates' post makes a good point, especially since topic titles aren't always well-thought out.  Towards the bottom of the thread I posted a bunch of screen shots and observations about how the search system seems to work.  Maybe they will help?  :dunno:

make sure if you are searching for many words at once to tie them together with AND or OR. unless you did that and are still seeing the same problem.