Help, the search function sucks

“Remind me again how to post pictures here? I tried to do a search to find the answer... to no avail... Thanks :)”

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Yes, the search function stinks.”

“Some decent stuff comes up if you search "HTML"”

“Thanks bp!”

“It would really be great if we could search for words or phrases within threads and narrow the search by poster name and/or date range.

How about it master of our web domain? Would you, could you?”

“OK, nimrod, what are we doing wrong?”

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IJ

Ive asked a few times but no one has helped me I know copy paste doesnt work mmmmmmm”

“You can't display images from webshots...

Go to Photobucket.com and open a free account. Upload photos and display from there... They even give you links to just copy & paste.”

“Yes, improve the SEARCH!

And also, how do you post a live link? What's the code? Thanks!”

“Photobucket.com How did you make that a link?”

“You can use Google to search this site which is faster and doesn't search just titles--but content.”

“Search for Bearcrossing and Sequoia on TT only via google.

Use the search string: BearCrossing "Sequoia" site:thebackpacker.com”

“Thanks, Dub.

Did you get my email??”

“Thanks. I know how to do that Dub, but google only picks up a fraction of what goes on here.”

“Are you saying there is a seedy underbelly to Trailtalk?”

“Actually, Google picks up everything that happens here but it takes a few days before new threads are scanned. Plus you have to make it show similar results or it filters out many of them.

BC, you should have it early next week.”

“Well... I tested it out just now.

It did find where bacpac solicited a then 14-year-old Ice Tea for oral pleasure (couldn't find that 6 months ago) but I couldn't find where roseymonster correctly predicted suicide bombers in Iraq.

Maybe I'm looking for the wrong phrases.”

“It took some looking but I found my first post 2 1/2 years ago under another name. Had to mess with the search strings a lot but I eventually found it. The thing that was keeping me from finding certain posts was Google filtering out similar results. Once I turned that off I found what I was looking for.”

“I'm not sure the "hot underage man-boy TT action" could every be considered the right phrase”