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Use Google for better site search performance

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Use Google for better site search performance

UPDATE 2.26.2014

The current seach feature on BCP sucks pretty bad. I have to spend some time finding a new solution or tweaking the current one to provide more accurate results, because it currently just returns the latest posts. Maybe a software update will fix it but for now....

Use Google. It will return any publicly searchable posts.

The key is to constrain your search to a single website.

Example of Google search:

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tailwheel low landing site:backcountrypilot.org


To see results that don't include the term "bush"

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wheels -bush site:backcountrypilot.org


To see a literal grouping of 2 words, instead of just the occurence of both word in a topic, use quotes. The following will return pages with the term "ground loop" instead of pages with "He tried to do a loop, and ended up hitting the ground."

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"ground loop" site:backcountrypilot.org


Additionally, if you use the Google Chrome web browser, you can configure it to do this automatically. It's extremely handy.
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Re: Use Google for better site search performance

Improving the built-in search in on my list of improvements. For now, I'm bumping this.
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Re: Use Google for better site search performance

Some other forums I belong to use Google as their search function. Couldn't you just incorporate Google's search feature into your forum?
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