How do you use the search function here?

[zimmerDN]

So? I find the search function hard to use... meaning it's hard to narrow down the results. For example, I want to search for "sharpening tip" and it came back with too many or too little results that are inaccurate.

So I need help with sharpening the tip of my knife with the sharpmaker since I am rounding the tips of knives by accident each time.

 

[WYK]

It's rather simply really:

1) You click on the "Search" menu and type in your topic

2) You TRY to figure out by the abstract topic headers what the thread might remotely have to do with what you are looking for - or

3) What you are looking for is so popular it blows up the search engine and gives you an "Unable to display this web page" error - with something like "Suggest a belt grinder" - or

4) You dredge up some topic that is so old the first 4 responses are "Ugh! Not THIS thread AGAIN!" or "You should have used the 'Search' to answer your question!"

5) You respond to a post that's been moved to a forum where 95% of it doesn't actually have anything to do with your search, and people start saying stuff like "What does grinding have to do with gold plating?!"

6) You can't make out ANY of the responses in the search engine and end up posting something that causes everyone who has been on the forums for any length of time to start whining about how "You should have used the 'Search' function first" - which actually ends up wasting as much, or more bandwidth and time than your original thread would have.

WYK

 

[zimmerDN]

So is this search engine capable of doing searches with strings like "", +/AND, ()?
I don't know how else to narrow down my search unless choosing terms ppl don't often use.

 

[Nordic Viking]

For advanced queries goto GOOGLE and type the following in the search field:

[I]YOUR QUERY[/I] site:www.bladeforums.com

Replace YOUR QUERY with your actual search phrase.

 

[Cougar Allen]

The internal search function can do Boolean logic but it can't do three letter words so "tip" is out and "sharpening" will probably overload it with too many hits (no matter what other terms you use with it) so putting www.bladeforums.com in the domain field at Google Advanced Search or other web search engine of your choice is probably your best bet.

http://www.google.com/advanced_search?safe=off&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_qdr=all&lr=lang_en&hl=en