Changes to the search function

Changes to the search function

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lewdon

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316 posts

172 months

Thursday 5th March 2020
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When did the search function on Pistonheads change to google? Or have I messed up my settings.
I went to consult the invaluable hoard of information on pistonheads (on the pros and cons of copper grease on sparkplug threads), to find myself with a pretty random google search across all the forums with a surprisingly small number of references, some of which were just advertising.
I’ve tried prefixing the search with “TVR s series” but still get references across all forums.
Is there some form of words which enable a full search narrowed down to the S series forum only, which used to be possible with a single click on the old search.
I’m also surprised that there doesn’t seem to have been any discussion about the change, or have I missed this as well?

Oldred_V8S

3,727 posts

245 months

Thursday 5th March 2020
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Emailed you Don as when I type the search string on here, part of it gets changed to a stupid smilie.

V8fan

6,616 posts

275 months

Thursday 5th March 2020
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Fefeu52

199 posts

73 months

Thursday 5th March 2020
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I discovered that at the beginning of the week. For me it is not an improvement. Is there any solution, link, to find the old search engine ? It was not so bad. At least, it was possible to see results sorted by topics, and filter results in the "S Series" section.

TVRees

1,085 posts

119 months

Thursday 5th March 2020
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Fefeu52 said:
I discovered that at the beginning of the week. For me it is not an improvement. Is there any solution, link, to find the old search engine ? It was not so bad. At least, it was possible to see results sorted by topics, and filter results in the "S Series" section.
I agree, it wasn't too bad and the filtering was useful.
Shame it's gone frown