Originally Posted by HereNT

In my experience, the search function on this forum is actually pretty limited. A lot of words are 'too common' and you can't use operators. If you remember when the thread was, you can narrow it down, but most of the time I end up with nothing, or pages of results. Sometimes I'll search, not find anything, then post my opinion.

That said, I have seen a lot of times when the answer to the person's question was actually on the first page of the current posts in the forum. A lot of times even with the title the same, and it would be a thread that had been going for awhile. That will usually get a 'Try the search button' from me instead of a link to the thread...