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Every time I try to search Apple communities I get posts from 8+ years ago and/or completely irrelevant forums. Surely there's a way to search just recent posts from a particular forum?
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Use the above link as sample. You can click filter on the search results page and restrict by time and community.
-AJ
Use the above link as sample. You can click filter on the search results page and restrict by time and community.
-AJ
agreed. however, ANY company that attempts to do a BETTER job at searching than Google will not succeed - Google is too good at it and always has been
This site used to run on JiveSoftware. It had its own database & search engine FOR it for content that requires occasional "indexing" to maintain performance. Apple abandoned Jive for a "homegrown" siteware Dec 2019 - the place will likely never be the same in any respect
ADD the path TO the forum of choice to the google SITE search
I'd been using that but it's rather annoying when you're in the site and just trying to search for various terms that might help locate answers to your problem, and it's still not obvious how to restrict to a particular forum.
Thanks, not sure how I missed that last time, though it's not as easy to use as I'd expect from Apple. I guess I usually expect search in forums to default to "current forum only" and sort by most recently posted.
Nope, that doesn't work, unless the search term happens to be in the article title when Google indexed it. Anyway there is a filter built-in to this site and it does work, I just totally missed it (and its default behaviour isn't entirely expected).
Next question, what is the deal with the ridiculous posting limits that I've apparently exceeded - I've posted maybe 1 question and 4 or 5 comments in the last 15 minutes??
For new members, there is a number of posts in some unknown amount of time limit
The reason it is unknown is methods & means security against SPAMmers who attempt to deluge the forums
That limit goes away
Frequency does not = none of us can post more often than 30 seconds
Heard the same thing about other search engines of the past prior to Google. Their problem was they depended too much on ads and never learned to monetize the search engine uses and play fast and loose with their privacy policies like Google has. I will agree Google is better and the search but I'll stick to DuckDuckGo as it meets my needs and I stay private.
From the BodyText of your Original Post = " I get posts from 8+ years ago "
ChitlinsCC "I get posts from 8+ years ago" site:discussions.apple.com - Google Search
The search function here is, shall we say, not the best. I try to avoid it and use Google.
How do I search Apple communities by date/forum
