A helpful ILM SEARCH TIP

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I've read people complaining about having trouble with the search functions on ILM, it being rather slow, and unable to search 3 letter words, etc., so I thought I'd share a useful search tip:

Use the THREAD TITLE search option in the advanced search section. It's about 10 million times faster than the keyword search (although it only searches the titles), and you can search 3 letter words. (This would have been useful to the person who was searching for XTC threads.)

Thank you and goodnight.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, this is a good point. I assume it puts much less load on the server too.

It would be good if people could bear this in mind when creating thread titles too.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

(it would be handy to put this information somewhere on the ILM search screen)

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I always use thread title myself, a few exceptions aside. Gets right to the point!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, I just did this and it worked great! I wish I had known sooner...thanks King Kobra.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

It also finds matches within words, e.g., searching for the the returns thread titles that contain the Theme, the Theatre and Loathe the.

Not a helpful tip, but a fun tip.

― assseenontv (cgould), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i feel a need to start a thread titled I Loathe The The The Theme Song.

i'm not sure what it would be about, though.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

oh wow, there's a search PAGE!

what's all that other stuff down there? how long has it been there?

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 2 December 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

...You're still looking at the browser, right?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 December 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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