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Related: About this forumanybody else having trouble with the advanced search function?
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anybody else having trouble with the advanced search function? (Original Post)
Kali
Jun 2020
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I've dropped a note to Admin via AtA
Ptah
(33,548 posts)2. Over the years, advanced search has been a hit or miss proposition.
More times than not, the search times out,
or gives the message you quoted in the other thread.
maybe I haven't used it in a while. it never worked well for subjects or search terms but to see posts people made was good.
For a word in an OP title and for author only it worked fine. Other options, nope.
Kali
(55,918 posts)7. I found the google search better for anything other than author only
but that always worked.
Yonnie3
(18,243 posts)6. Working this morning n/t