Searching effectively for topics

[romualdo]

Any advice on searching for previous topics

eg

recently I wanted to post something on Hat Hut/Art rereleases - I knew there has been a previous/ongoing thread for this label

Searched Hat Art, Hat Hut, Hatology but nothing came up so I started a new thread

now today I see the thread I was trying to find "All Things Hat"!!! - I should have just searched for "Hat"

[mjzee]

Any advice on searching for previous topics

eg

recently I wanted to post something on Hat Hut/Art rereleases - I knew there has been a previous/ongoing thread for this label

Searched Hat Art, Hat Hut, Hatology but nothing came up so I started a new thread

now today I see the thread I was trying to find "All Things Hat"!!! - I should have just searched for "Hat"

I don't think you can search for just a three-letter word; it won't return any results. I think the search term needs to be at least four letters long.

Many posters have mentioned that the best way to search Organissimo is to use Google.

[Uncle Skid]

Google seems to work well -- just search as usual, but add "site:organissimo.org" to the end of the search (without the quotes). For example:

hat site:organissimo.org

"All Things Hat" shows up as the seventh hit, but most of the ones above that are related to Hat recordings.

[romualdo]

Thanks for the "google + organissimo" tip

will use that in future

[erwbol]

This suggestion works well, thanks.

A shame that so many interesting threads simply cannot be found by browsing the forum section under which they are supposedly located. These topics do not appear to be locked. I assume that when new posts are made they'll show up again when browsing. You really already have to know what it is you're looking for around here.

[mjzee]

This new version of the Board software has a helpful feature, where tags can be added. This would greatly help searching. However, they can only be added by the thread's creator.