How to search the forum

[Kallocain]

Here is how to search the paradox forums (thanks sneezinglion).

Open a browser. Go to www.google.com.
Put this as your first search term: "site:forum.paradoxplaza.com" then put in your search terms.

For instance to find an AAR for HOI2: Doomsday that mentions Bhutan click here: google search example

Searching this way also gives you more results than the vBulletin search would. Example: if you write hoi in Google you will get hoi, hoi3, hoi2 results and so on. This does not work with the vBulleting search. There you would only get hoi. And if you just want the hoi results in Google, you enter it like this: "hoi ". See the little space before the second "? That is the trick.

I hope this helps.

 

[unmerged(167124)]

A forum without its own search function... wow.

 

[unmerged(169936)]

Not the first time I've seen it. But not a good thing to leave out.

 

[HisMajestyBOB]

Forum search takes up a lot of the forum's resources, meaning lots of downtime or "server overloaded" messages. That's why it's been removed since... EUIII's release? Maybe earlier.

 

[unmerged(181714)]

what a joke, i cant remember the last time i used a forum that didn't have a search function- its a basic requirement for a forum...

google- pfft! sort it out chaps, not like you dont have the resources/money or knowhow to implement this..

 

[unmerged(181359)]

Doesn't google have a little bit of code you can slap in to integrate their search with the forum? I've seen in on numerous sites in the past.

 

[unmerged(185750)]

It seems to be not possible to search in the Tech Support Forum with this workaround. Do you have any suggestions for this issue?

 

[unmerged(188203)]

no search function...this game is less than a yr old how is it's website so out of touch with current standards?

 

[Spiderman]

It's not out of touch, it appears to be a conscious decision to save resources. Read post #4.

 

[unmerged(185750)]

Sorry but deactivating the search function is a low budget solution for resource problems, isn't it?

Other bigger communitys can handle that problem too.

 

[Spiderman]

Agreed, but that's different from being "out of touch"

 

[unmerged(194970)]

Server Resources? Are you kidding me?

Server search resources are a very small investment in support of your product. In fact it is a foolish investment to NOT have search because it cuts down on the Human Resources that are required to address users directly when they cant find something through search.

Are you kidding me?


What is the REAL reason search was left out?

 

[unmerged(194970)]

Oh p.s.

Yes.., It is out of touch, Conscious or Not!

 

[Prokonsul Piotrus]

Resource drain? Seriously, you guys cannot afford a server that can survive some searchers? I know a bunch of free boards with similar amount of users that somehow manage to do it.