Unfortunately, phpBB forum search seems to suck.

[Rich]

Per jsc on another thread: "Unfortunately, phpBB forum search seems to suck."

I totally agree. Anyone have any tips for meaningful searches?

Rich

[rpollack]

I'm open to suggestions...

[ednisley]

Anyone have any tips for meaningful searches?

I'm with jsc:

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site:forum.makergear.com whatever

in Google works perfectly.

Alas, I generally do that after ragequitting when the Search box burps up four irrelevant responses...

[msmollin]

In my travels, no built-in forum search seems to be able to match Google/Bing/Yahoo/etc. for crawling capabilities. I have no idea why that is. Even systems that use the Solr/Lucene for their backend search implementation don't work well.

That said, if you want something that at least looks like something not from the 1990s, http://vanillaforums.org/ has been getting good reviews.

[insta]

In my travels, no built-in forum search seems to be able to match Google/Bing/Yahoo/etc. for crawling capabilities. I have no idea why that is. Even systems that use the Solr/Lucene for their backend search implementation don't work well.

That said, if you want something that at least looks like something not from the 1990s, http://vanillaforums.org/ has been getting good reviews.

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