How to Use "Search" on the Message Board

[Petra]

As many people know (or may not know), vBulletin has its own seach function for the message board. While you don't HAVE to use it when you're about to post your own thread, it is highly recommended that you do a seach for the topic you're about to post to avoid posting it for the 100th time and looking like a complete newbie.

Plus this keeps your thread from getting merged into another thread, or worse yet, deleted.

So, read on to learn how to use the search function!

1.) Locate the SEARCH up in the message board toolbar:

2.) Click on the search link to get a drop down box:

• From here you can type in your search topic (say, Jenna Jameson). Click either "show threads" if you want to see all threads pertaining to your search or click "show posts" for all posts your search topic is in.
  
• You can also do a "tag search" or you can click "advanced search" to get a more detailed search.

3.) If you do a "tag search," it will look like this:

• The tag cloud shows all of the most popular tags in a thread, but you can put in your own word to see what comes up. You can tag a particular thread as well then do a tag search so it will always come up in your search.

4.) Advanced search will look like this:

• 1. This is the most important area of the advanced search. You put your search term in (for example Jenna Jameson) and then click "titles only." All of the threads with your search term will come up!
  
• 2. If you want to get more specific, you can use these drop down boxes.
  
• 3. If you want to see threads with your search term, don't touch this area. But if you want to see all posts with your search term, click "posts."
  
• 4. If you want to search for a user, enter their user name. You can put a partial search in and everyone with that word or start of a name will show up in a drop down menu.
  
• 5. You can also search for a tag in the advanced search.
  
• 6. You can contain your search to a particular section of the board vs. having your search go through the whole board.

 

[Legzman]

:rofl: this should be a sticky at the top of the main talk section entitled:

ATTN: newbies (yes you) MUST read before posting!

 

[Petra]

:rofl: this should be a sticky at the top of the main talk section entitled:

ATTN: newbies (yes you) MUST read before posting!

I've got plans.

 

[ChefChiTown]

I'm salivating...

:drool:

 

[pastyphil]

Search does not always work though, searched for Jenny McClean today and it gave me a thread with only 1 entry and completely missed the thread with 156 entries. Perhaps it gets jammed up or something.

 

[Cyclops_34]

One less mistake I'll make here

 

[broderic_randal]

One less mistake I'll make here

haha i doubt it

 

[tittenman]

Search does not always work though, searched for Jenny McClean today and it gave me a thread with only 1 entry and completely missed the thread with 156 entries. Perhaps it gets jammed up or something.

I have a similar concern to this, let me start by giving you an example of what I mean.

Ok Starting from say "Freeones > Find your favourite babe" , I am trying to do a quick search for say Sara Jay, using the boards "Search This Forum" (not the general Search function above it, I find more often than not within the result set that the main thread containing the terms I am searching for maybe found on the 4th or 5th page of results rather than as on would expect at the top of the first page! I have found that it only seems to appear at the top of the results if it has been posted to very recently, otherwise its de-moted significantly down the list. Is there a reason for this?

 

[13blackcat]

what if you're searching for a pic of a girl you dont know, yet cant post that pic since it contains pornograhy?

 

[slasher]

what if you're searching for a pic of a girl you dont know, yet cant post that pic since it contains pornograhy?

I'm not sure what you are saying. There have been plenty of pics that have been posted on here that are pornographic. Post it in the babe ID section as long as it isn't hardcore.

 

[Fairchild]

Back when I was a noob (almost ayear ago!), I found the search engine almost completely useless, due to the fact that the "show threads" option is preselected. I didn't think much about it, I just entered my query and hit search. What that gave me was a list of threads where what I was looking for (let's say "ballet boots and bunny ears", just for the sake of argument), was posted somewhere.
Somewhere in that thread that is. I would spend hours looking through threads, trying to find what I was looking for.

Anyway, what I'm saying is, I think that "show posts" should be preselected.

 

[CrazyBlue]

Anyway, what I'm saying is, I think that "show posts" should be preselected.

Well that is difficult because not everyone has the same intentions.

Me for example: I am very often searching for threads instead of posts - to avoid getting lots of useless posts and quote-posts to look through.

 

[jsam]

what if you're searching for a pic of a girl you dont know

 

[Lungzyn]

what if you're searching for a pic of a girl you dont know

Try asking for her name in the Identify/Name the Babe section :wave2:

 

[Shadowfax 10]

I always wondered what a tag was but now I know.

 

[maildude]

Yes, this search engine has its problems. Yes, it misses stuff yer looking for. Yes, you should still familiarize yourself with it. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

 

[Petra]

Someday vBulletin may get their act together and implement a new version of the search engine that a.) makes sense b.) works as intended

I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for it to happen though.

 

[jsam]

Hi To Everyone

 

[jayaprak]

Yes, this search engine has its problems. Yes, it misses stuff yer looking for. Yes, you should still familiarize yourself with it. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

yeah.

 

[brona55]

this doesn't always work