Succeeding with the "Search Function"

Please note that the much-maligned search function works beautifully if you put quotes around the word or term you're searching for. If you do not put the quote marks in, you get a listing of every post, starting with the most recent!!!! The directions say to use the quote marks but most of us don't read the directions and are used to the modern search engines that no longer require them> hope this helps. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[AncientPC]

Putting quotes means to search for that exact term, i.e. searching a phrase.

If you search for "poker tracker" it will only return results with the phrase "poker tracker". However if you use + between, e.g. poker + tracker, it will return results with the either poker or tracker in the post.

Most search engines add the + where there is a space by default, but not the search function on these forums which causes some confusion.