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Old 04-21-2008, 12:17 AM
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i can't seem to find any search commands listed anywhere on the forum. i want to search for "valve adjustment" but when i do the search it finds everything with "valve" or "adjustment." how do i specify "valve" AND "adjustment?"

i've tried all the traditional ways i'm familiar with but nothing seemed to change the search.

thanks.
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Old 04-21-2008, 12:38 AM
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i can't seem to find any search commands listed anywhere on the forum. i want to search for "valve adjustment" but when i do the search it finds everything with "valve" or "adjustment." how do i specify "valve" AND "adjustment?"

i've tried all the traditional ways i'm familiar with but nothing seemed to change the search.

thanks.
I've described the search capability as "clunky" because it does pull every word you pretty much put in and there is no way to set relevance that I'm aware of. If you know the specific words in a post it's pretty good at pulling those in quotes or if you know the exact name of a thread. But otherwise you pull pages of anything that matches. If I get enough words in the right area I scan for what I thought the thread was called and can usually find it that way. But that also means you have to read a lot of the bb and be somewhat familiar with the material and thread names. If I can't find it, I go outside of the bb to Google and search the traditional way: "valve" and "adjustment" and "Alfa bb." Yes, it will pull other stuff too, but you can scan for the bb address and start reading the threads it directs to you. I find things are archived in Google normally within 48 hours or so.
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One of the easier and fastest ways to search AlfaBB is to use Google and limit the search to Alfabb by adding "site:www.alfabb.com" (without quotation marks) to the search string.

For example, try this link: valve adjustment site:www.alfabb.com.

This type of search also circumvents annoying search restrictions for two-letter words (e.g. SS, SZ, etc.) and there is no time limit between searches.
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