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wu :: forums    riddles    suggestions, help, and FAQ (Moderators: Icarus, william wu, Eigenray, towr, Grimbal, ThudnBlunder, SMQ)    What's wrong with Search? « Previous topic | Next topic » Pages: 1  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print    Author  Topic: What's wrong with Search?  (Read 7983 times) Cerberus Newbie     Posts: 10 What's wrong with Search?   « on: Apr 1st, 2009, 10:47am » Quote Modify None of the Searches I do ever come up with a single thread... even if I choose a thread and search for a word that is in the thread title, and all through the thread!   What am I doing wrong? IP Logged towr wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler Some people are average, some are just mean.     Gender: Posts: 13730 Re: What's wrong with Search?   « Reply #1 on: Apr 1st, 2009, 10:57am » Quote Modify Did you check boxes for the forums to search? And for older threads you need to set the maximum age back. IP Logged Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB Cerberus Newbie     Posts: 10 Re: What's wrong with Search?   « Reply #2 on: Apr 1st, 2009, 11:39am » Quote Modify Thanks...   I thought that the default was that they all get searched, as it is on another forum I frequent.   Geez, I can't even answer the 'how to search' riddle... no wonder I came looking for other answers!   IP Logged william wu wu::riddles Administrator     Gender: Posts: 1291 Re: What's wrong with Search?   « Reply #3 on: Apr 6th, 2010, 7:21pm » Quote Modify I increased the default max age from 1 year to 10 years. IP Logged [ wu ] : http://wuriddles.com / http://forums.wuriddles.com playful Junior Member meet me at the second fork in the road     Gender: Posts: 100 Re: What's wrong with Search?   « Reply #4 on: Nov 9th, 2011, 10:07am » Quote Modify For the record, I'm finding that Google does an excellent job searching the forum.   For those who are not familiar with the syntax, here's how to search the forum on Google: add   Code: site:ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu to your search line, for instance:   Code: "3 hats" site:ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu IP Logged my favorite puzzles Pages: 1  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print Forum Jump: ----------------------------- riddles -----------------------------  - easy   - medium   - hard   - what am i   - what happened   - microsoft   - cs   - putnam exam (pure math) => suggestions, help, and FAQ   - general problem-solving / chatting / whatever ----------------------------- general -----------------------------  - guestbook   - truth   - complex analysis   - wanted   - psychology   - chinese « Previous topic | Next topic »

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