Help with Searching
Help with Searching
So when i do a search, and include searching the titles and the posts, i get a lot of results but i can never find what im looking for in the posts.
Its confusing i know, let me give you an example.
If i search for "Catch Can" and do titles only, its obvious i get a lot of posts about catch cans. But if i include "posts" as well, i get thousands of results which is great. BUT, how do i find the discussion about catch cans inside a longer post?
Another example, a lot of times when i search for stuff, the thread "What did you do to your truck today" comes up...so someone either talked about or installed what im searching for...but that post is 100's of pages long, no way am i scrolling throught the whole thing looking for my keyword. Is there a better way to find keywords that arent in titles but inside a long thread?
Thanks
Its confusing i know, let me give you an example.
If i search for "Catch Can" and do titles only, its obvious i get a lot of posts about catch cans. But if i include "posts" as well, i get thousands of results which is great. BUT, how do i find the discussion about catch cans inside a longer post?
Another example, a lot of times when i search for stuff, the thread "What did you do to your truck today" comes up...so someone either talked about or installed what im searching for...but that post is 100's of pages long, no way am i scrolling throught the whole thing looking for my keyword. Is there a better way to find keywords that arent in titles but inside a long thread?
Thanks
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So when i do a search, and include searching the titles and the posts, i get a lot of results but i can never find what im looking for in the posts.
Its confusing i know, let me give you an example.
If i search for "Catch Can" and do titles only, its obvious i get a lot of posts about catch cans. But if i include "posts" as well, i get thousands of results which is great. BUT, how do i find the discussion about catch cans inside a longer post?
Another example, a lot of times when i search for stuff, the thread "What did you do to your truck today" comes up...so someone either talked about or installed what im searching for...but that post is 100's of pages long, no way am i scrolling throught the whole thing looking for my keyword. Is there a better way to find keywords that arent in titles but inside a long thread?
Thanks
Its confusing i know, let me give you an example.
If i search for "Catch Can" and do titles only, its obvious i get a lot of posts about catch cans. But if i include "posts" as well, i get thousands of results which is great. BUT, how do i find the discussion about catch cans inside a longer post?
Another example, a lot of times when i search for stuff, the thread "What did you do to your truck today" comes up...so someone either talked about or installed what im searching for...but that post is 100's of pages long, no way am i scrolling throught the whole thing looking for my keyword. Is there a better way to find keywords that arent in titles but inside a long thread?
Thanks
https://www.f150forum.com/search.php
There's a Show Results as option to select Posts. It should then show links to the actual post within any thread.
SPOAT's suggestion of using Google to help search is a good. Search on just about any site, from a member's perspective, is almost always not good enough. When you have sites as large as F150, which contains over 6 million posts, it gets pretty difficult to search all that data and show the exact result the member is looking for. Using the Advanced Search helps narrow it down. But it's hard to beat Google's search engine since that was their business to begin with.
