How to use an external search facility on HUBB
 

Sometimes it's easier to use Google to search HUBB than to use the forum's in-built search. This is a tip that applies to any website, so you might want to remember it.

On a particular website (HUBB in this case), copy the URL shown at the top of the page, which right at this moment is
https: //www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=38
(I've actually stuck a space after https: so it displays as text in here)

Then (1) strip out the trailing text after .com and (2) replace the leading https: //www. with site: so you get
site:horizonsunlimited.com

Now add your search arguments, optionally enclosed in quotes if you want to combine words or force the search to use all conditions, for example,
site:horizonsunlimited.com "metal bashplate" "Triumph Tiger"

And to my complete surprise, there was actually a hit for this from a 2009 thread!!

The forum/ bulletin board search facility is indeed utterly useless. The main search box on every HU webpage, including the HUBB forum/ bulletin board (top right of your screen next to the Facebook/Twitter/Instagram icons) has been using Google's search engine for about the past decade. So no need to go external. No need to write site: horizonsunlimited.com

Putting your search terms in quotation marks means you're searching for an exact string of characters rather than any HU pages including metal or bashplate or both

PS. If you're interested in why when you search something on Google and I use the identical criteria we likely get different results, this TED Talk video is enlightening:

https://youtu.be/B8ofWFx525s

Exact string was my intention.

Some bedtime reading, Tim: https://www.techtarget.com/searchapp...tion/data-type

:mchappy:

That's very kind of you, Chris, but I've been working with programming since my early days using Fortran on an English Electric KDF9 in the 1960s. ;)