There have been a number of related requests already, but I would like to bring it back to the front burner:
If forums are advertised as a support resource, THEN we must be able to search them more precisely.
I find the general search box rather useless because you get overwhelmed with too many hits. Particularly annoying is that the hits include all the posts in the same thread that feature the search terms.
I have used the google work around but it would be better if we could it directly from the forum site.
Actually, it seems that some of the functionality that could make it better is already built-in. I get the best results by typing the search terms into the subject field of a new post and then looking at the list of related posts that appears. The view is not expanded (showing the text of the posts) but only the titles.
Perhaps more options to expand, collapse, search titles, search body, etc would help.
The bottom line is this: I KNOW that the forum is a resource. I use it frequently as such. Searches are frustrating. Regularly I actually miss relevant threads because I give up when I see the number of pages that return for my search.
