It took me about a year to notice that the default for searches (under Refine Search/Search posts from..) is "Last 30 days". You won't find shiznit searching that way. A lot of the good posts are at least a few months back in the archives. I always set mine to "Any date" and it helps a lot! I wish the default was set to "Any Date", that would be nice...

Searches use a lot of system resources. By leaving up to the user and not defaulting every search to "any date", we minimize that "drag".

I always use "any date" unless I know what i am looking for was more recent, and I still think the search function doesn't work as well as it should.

I found out recently using "and" helps a lot when doing searches. That's my reason for being search-challenged. I always knew about the date option.

The important thing is what we've learned today: It's much easier to post a question redundantly than to search for it in archive.

Jen

Using "and" between search terms helps a lot. I always use it.

That's what I figured Gint. Too bad it makes people like me do a minimum of two searches every time since I always forget to set the option.

Is the search function documented somewhere? I never knew you could use boolan operators. Is there any special syntax?

Smack under the "Search Keyword" field: