There have been a bunch of "I can't search because the function's broken sorry if this has already been posted" comments in the past little while, so I'm guessing that many of you are unfamiliar with one of Google's handier features: the site specific search.

If you're looking for info on pista vs iro vs langster, go to google and type in:

pista iro langster site:bikeforums.net

And google gives you hits only from this fine website. You can use all of your favorite Google search features (quotation marks for complete phrases, + or - to add or exclude terms, etc, etc) as well.

You'll probably get a bunch of links to archived threads; however, conveniently enough, all of the archived threads have a link (right at the top, no less) to the "real" version of the thread. It's easy. Yay.

Thanks for the advise. Should help those of us who are not so webadextrous.

it just doesn't seem to do as well as the in-site search. i mean, there you can search by forum, thread title only, etc. but this is good advice, hopefully people will read it.

Actually, I knew about the trick the OP posted. I was hoping someone know how to narrow it down by title, sub-forum and poster.

Thank you for making the newbs STFU. Finally they they can't come out again and go in a "I can't search so ..." fest

you can also try title searches:

intitle:iro site:bikeforums.net

ha, that turned ": p" into a smiley.

google's rad. but there's so much you can use it for i can't remember half.

tight!

sticky this in lieu of a search button? if this drops down a couple pages, finding it again, especially for the people who missed it first time around, or newbies or whatever...well, it's not happening.

Search is back on, but I'm not going to announce it just yet.

i noticed that just as i refreshed the page. cool! thanks!