Using the forum search engine

enki_ck · **on:** January 20, 2013, 05:22:00 PM

Members often have trouble with using the forum search engine. A good option is to go to google and search for content using the "site:.multitool.org" string without quotation marks on the end of your search. But that doesn't help with the BIG threads like the The great multitool picture thread or What's your latest SAK? which have a lot of information, cause google just drops you in the middle of it and you have to dig yourself through a ton of pages.

Forum search engine is much better. If you know how to use it.

The trick is to search in the relevant subforum. If you are browsing in the Swiss forum and you want to get some info on a Leatherman, typing a word in the search field won't get you anywhere cause the search engine will search only in the Swiss forum. This is to reduce the number of hits to a smaller size with more relevant results. SO if you search for Leatherman stuff, go to the Leatherman subforum and search there, if you search for Gerber, go to the Gerber forum and so on.

If you are not exactly sure in which subforum the information could be found, go to the main page and search from there. That search will cover the whole forum, but you'll get a lot of hits and will have to dig yourself through them.

Hope this helps some of you.

stealth007s · **Reply #1 on:** January 23, 2013, 07:24:38 AM

I thought this was a no brainer but I think that this may help some Enki

Outback in Idaho · **Reply #2 on:** January 23, 2013, 08:19:51 AM

Have been do that. Some items with a certain name may not have been called that on the forum, like a recent "Wenger Ridge". Looked in the Swiss forum first, then backed out to the main page. No results were returned. But that was during the time when half my posts were in New Replies & Last Visit. Might of just been a timing issue.