The usual "   " lets me know your just giving me a hard time. And thats cool. Ive gotten I say my fair share of cheap shots on you too.

Can someone confirm or correct my impression that the on-site custom Google search actually excludes Off-Topic threads? (I'd be typing about this from Elemental if we had a Forum Issues topic over there. Hint-hint.)

I was hunting for the phrase "True Name" and decided to try Bara's fix. I got no results, but I had a strong inkling that I'd seen the phrase. I tried an external search with the site:forums.elementalgame.com parameter, and lo and behold, I found an Off-Topic thread that included "True Name."

I really don't want this to be just another mistaken observation on my part.

Well, now I'm thinking what I saw was a search burp because some later searches over at Elemental showed a bunch of clutter from off-topic threads.

Is there any chance we'll ever be able to search just the topics we want to read (an 'Advanced' local search)? Ever since the cross-site merger thingy got so big, it has been much harder to use the site: search limiter to help searches because the domain names don't mean quite what they used to.

Unfortunately not, based on the tools available to me from Google.  However, I have started discussions with our database guy in possibly bringing back direct database search, so that we don't have to go through Google.  But don't expect it anytime soon, this is probably months off as it requires new servers to handle the load, some code updates, and likely other changes.

I wish

Bara