Gransnet Search facility is RIDICULOUS

I think with forums sometimes you are stuck with certain characteristics of the software ... anyway on the GN forums it is u.s.e.l.e.s.s, I agree.

Absolutely useless. Thee must be search boxes that could be acquired from one of the websites providing gadgets for amateur sites and blogs that could be slotted in.

Original thread came up first time for me. The one where, in first post, Merlot says, "Anyone watch it"

Search always works well for me.

You must be very lucky, J08 It is very seldom that I succeed, however well I remember the exact words to look for. I get pages of irrelevant results and nothing of what I want.

Is Search at the top better than Search forums, then?

Perhaps this is where I've been going wrong.

But Search forums is still ridiculous. They should delete it.

I've not tried anything except the search box at the top right, above "My Gransnet"

And that's useless too?

Sigh.

I use the one just above "gransent forums". Got two T 's next to it.

Yes, that one works better. The actual forum search is rubbish.

That's the one I used (but not any more)

For a good laugh, try the one on a local page to search for a different area. Put in Er and see what you get. It won't be Erith.

I just tried it and TWQ was the first thread listed.

Always seems to work for me !