605328 Fri Mar 20 09:29:01 -0700 2009 13 30 Site Talk 0 4522358 Searching the SF Bay Area board for title:aziza gets zero hits, even if I expand the date range to ten years. Is that a bug or has that feature been deprecated:? Fri Mar 20 09:29:01 -0700 2009 11369 Robert Lauriston 1 4522464 From the sticky about the search changes: - Text search options such as User:Username and Board:Boardname are no longer available, we will restore them in the next release, in the interim, searching by username in quotes should return all posts for that user. Fri Mar 20 09:56:08 -0700 2009 4522358 10021 Jacquilynne 2 4523016 Thanks. Quotes don't seem to work either. Fri Mar 20 12:06:24 -0700 2009 4522464 11369 Robert Lauriston 3 4523122 Agreed. Quotes seem to have no effect. Anne Fri Mar 20 12:32:49 -0700 2009 4523016 12541 AnneInMpls 2 4800696 Please bring these search terms back: title, user, board, etc. Tue Jun 23 23:34:59 -0700 2009 4522464 18222 maria lorraine 3 4801389 There are now search boxes for all of those when you set the type of search to 'boards'. Wed Jun 24 07:30:45 -0700 2009 4800696 10021 Jacquilynne 4 4801399 It's working very nicely now - Thanks. I realized that one can just hit "search" and the advanced search options appear. Wed Jun 24 07:34:09 -0700 2009 4801389 10985 MMRuth 4 4802714 Jacquilynne, I guess there's no thread or sticky post that lists search tips. I looked last night. I was searching for threads with another Chowhound and myself. No longer am I able to search for user:"maria lorraine" AND user:whiner -- just to use whiner as an example. (He's so knowledgeable about wine.) There's no guideline how to do this, so I struck out last night. Just now, I clicked on Search at the top middle of the page, and typed in whiner in the username window. Then in the general Chow Search window above that, I typed in "maria lorraine." That worked, but I had to figure it out. So, please issue a Search Tips sticky that lists how to perform searches like this. And by the way, the Search function in general has come up with zero threads time and time again when I know the thread is there. But you already know teh Search function is wonky. Good luck with the Spam on the SF Board. It's spreading like kudzu. Don't mean to complain -- I know you're overwhelmed at the moment -- but these things are basic stuff that should be highly functional and are on other sites. Don't know why Chowhound is having such problems. Good luck, Maria Wed Jun 24 13:13:50 -0700 2009 4801389 18222 maria lorraine 5 4802969 I'm not sure I could think up all the ways people might want to use search in order to create a sticky like you want, but I'm happy to try and figure out ways to do searches that people want to do if they ask. Wed Jun 24 14:14:16 -0700 2009 4802714 10021 Jacquilynne 6 4803107 Is there a Basic Search sticky that's accurate now? Wed Jun 24 14:52:30 -0700 2009 4802969 18222 maria lorraine 7 4803138 Just the Help on the search page itself. Wed Jun 24 15:05:48 -0700 2009 4803107 10021 Jacquilynne 1 4522530 Use yahoo.com for your searches - the title feature works there. In fact, you'll get much better results with an external search than with the barely-functional chow search. Here's what I'd recommend: title:aziza "San Francisco Bay Area" site:chow.com Note that google doesn't seem to support the "title:x" syntax in a search. So stick with yahoo. Anne Fri Mar 20 10:10:26 -0700 2009 4522358 12541 AnneInMpls 2 4523027 The equivalent Google switch is intitle: http://www.google.com/help/operators.html Fri Mar 20 12:08:24 -0700 2009 4522530 11369 Robert Lauriston 3 4523121 Aha! Thanks for that. Google's "advanced search" help doesn't mention intitle. But now I am enlightened! By the by, I figured that you're already a pro with external searches, but I put the tip here for other viewers... Me, I learned about the site: option about a year ago, in a previous thread about ongoing chowhound search problems. Anne Fri Mar 20 12:32:18 -0700 2009 4523027 12541 AnneInMpls