Does the search box on "new posts" results work?

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John Little
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Does the search box on "new posts" results work?

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I have been playing with the search box in the "new posts" results to see if the results can be refined. I found an old discussion here using google that suggested that it should work but I havent had any positive results.

The article suggested using + & - before certain words but that has no effect at all so, can it he done?

Im particularly looking at a language phpbb forum catering for many languages so a "new posts" search can bring up a long list of irrelevant posts
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Re: Does the search box on "new posts" results work?

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The "Search these results" box should work fine. You will have to explain exactly what problem you are having
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Re: Does the search box on "new posts" results work?

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Whatever I put in it makes no difference. I tried + & - words or even just words and the results remain the same
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Re: Does the search box on "new posts" results work?

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Can you post a couple of example searches you’ve tried please?
  • "The more connected we get the more alone we become" - Kyle Broflovski©
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    The bad news is, whatever humans can imagine, they can usually create.
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Re: Does the search box on "new posts" results work?

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Hi mick, thanks for replying. Here are two screen shots. One showing a straight "new posts' and the other after searching to exclude the second listing "numbers and money"
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Re: Does the search box on "new posts" results work?

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But this did work on another forum.

Same method. New posts including "asteroid watch" then with asteroid watch filtered out.

But its not consistent and i dont know why!!!!!
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Re: Does the search box on "new posts" results work?

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Right. Could it be a cache thing? I have tried various phpbb forums with mixed results. Sometimes it works and other times not. I just tried it again on the forum in question (forum.duome.eu) and it worked once then wouldnt work the second time. Then I left the site and cleared the "history" and again it did work.

Perhaps I should have tried a few times before posting this but the cache idea sort of makes sense.

Thoughts?
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Re: Does the search box on "new posts" results work?

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Clearing the browser cache definitely works. Sorted! :)
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