suggestion Change Search Default Behavior

[rms_sandiego]

Steve:

 

How about changing the default for the search target to always be "This forum" instead of "This post" when you are in a string... It is exceedingly rare to want to target a search to the current post and when there is nil result, it is confusing folks....

 

Defaulting to always search the current forum would be preferred....

Edited May 13, 2013 by Rob S

[steve k.]

i do not have a way to set this. Right now, the search defaults to search your current location

 

steve k.

[rms_sandiego]

Pity. Maybe in the next version... Regardless, this is a great site. 

[steve k.]

I can make Google to be the default search type. Will people want that?

[M3M3]

no thanks....

[rms_sandiego]

I've been thinking about it...

 

What about adding the google search as a second button/search box, sort of like the old site...

[steve k.]

There is already an option for Google search.

[Cru Jones]

I can make Google to be the default search type. Will people want that?

 

Was about to suggest that. The searches done outside that return sub-optimal results. Case in point, yesterday I wanted to research sale prices of the "32/36" and if I search via Google I get a ton of results (3940) whereby when I search via same string it doesn't handle the "/", so changes search to "3236" which yields a lot less posts. I guess if you can make the Advanced Search search via Google that would suffice. Just seems the forum's search isn't as sophisticated as the Google search and thus misses out on a lot of pertinent topics.