MSE Searches

tomthebomb · 12 January 2007 at 1:34AM

I have just spent a frustrating evening trying to find posts I have read previously.
Surely with all the well proven Techies on this thread something could be done to improve the search engine on what is otherwise a brilliant site.

iwanttosave_2 · 12 January 2007 at 1:37AM

click on your user name and then click "find more posts by tomthebomb"

or click this link

tomthebomb · 12 January 2007 at 1:48AM

Thanks for that iwanttosave but I didn't mean my own posts - just posts I had read in the past on various subjects and would like to revisit.

reehsetin · 12 January 2007 at 1:50AM

You can find all the threads youve posted in before?
go to your profile page
ie http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/member.html?u=13443
and click on:
Find all posts by tomthebomb

iwanttosave_2 · 12 January 2007 at 1:52AM

tomthebomb wrote:

Thanks for that iwanttosave but I didn't mean my own posts - just posts I had read in the past on various subjects and would like to revisit.

I find the search engine here to be dire, so I just type in the key words, or title if I remember it + moneysavingexpert

Or if it is something you want to keep an eye on, you can subscribe to it using the forum tools on the top left hand side of the first post.

Dan29 · 12 January 2007 at 1:55AM

I use Google. If you type in

your search phrase here site:moneysavingexpert.com

then it will just search moneysavingexpert.com

nelly_2 · 12 January 2007 at 8:07AM

Its not this websites fault its Vbulletin forums in general, although they are without a doubt the best type of forum model, the search funtion is as wanty says - dire

cwoodham · 12 January 2007 at 8:39AM

Theres a guide to searching here:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=325723#post325723

But you may already have seen it. Search words must be at least 4 characters long but you can search for 3 letter words using an asterisk, e.g. dvd*

HTH

Former_MSE_Neil · 12 January 2007 at 9:06AM

Hello All,

The search is something we are looking at improving, as mentioned earlier the vbulletin search is "ok" however, we are now reaching 4 million posts and it is starting to struggle to pull out the best.

Please hold tight and hopefully soon we will have a better solution to the issue.

Thanks

MSE Neil

nelly_2 · 13 January 2007 at 11:27AM

This is missing on the search off here.

I dont know if its by accident or design cos of the recent overloads martin was on about the other day, but it offers up far more acurate search results

Dan29 · 13 January 2007 at 4:14PM

nelly wrote:

This is missing on the search off here.

I dont know if its by accident or design cos of the recent overloads martin was on about the other day, but it offers up far more acurate search results

You can get that by clicking on Advanced Search.

MSE Searches

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