• 04-22-2007, 09:27 AM
    Rich-n-Texas
    How advanced is "Advanced" search?
    I want to plug into the Keywords box the search text *What's your favorite XM satellite station?" so I can add mine to it, if a thread along those lines exists. I know I'd probably have to shorten it to something like: Favorite XM station?, but do I need to add any operators to give me exact results?

    Other discussion forums I've been a part of weren't that intellegent but instead they added a Google Search link for the Advanced Search option. Thanks.
  • 04-23-2007, 05:31 AM
    GMichael
    Not sure. What did you get when you tried?
  • 04-23-2007, 07:01 AM
    Rich-n-Texas
    I first did a search on this criteria: Favorite XM Radio Stations?
    • Search Titles
    • At least 5 replies
    • 3 months ago and newer
    • All open forums
    This returned no matches. Next I tried: Favorite+XM+Radio+Stations?
    • Search Titles
    • At least 5 replies
    • 3 months ago and newer
    • All open forums
    No matches, so I just did a random search on "XM radio", and got flooded with matches, but as far as I could tell, only topics and posts containing radio were returned. Even some that had Radio Shack mentioned.

    I'm just trying to get a feel for the Search engine on this site in an attempt to avoid redundancy. Maybe going back more than 3 months would yeild more accuracy, but would also probably return too many results to read through.