I see a lot of people here post items that have been previously posted and then comments that the “search function still works”. Does it work well? I have anecdotally tried to search things from time to time without much success. Thoughts?
Perhaps I am doing my searches wrong?
The search function here absolutely sucks despite them pretending otherwise.
It’s never worked well for me. I don’t think I’m the only one. Others who have posted duplicates have said they searched first but nothing came up.
Sometimes google search works better than FR's. In the past, I have googled the title with the words *Free Republic* added, and that usually brings up any article someone posted on FR.
That is a good reason for people to think about and use the keyword function.
Also one of the mods pointed out some time ago, that if you put a word from the title in the box and then select titles, any title with that word in it will show up.
Possibly. I have had no problems with the search function here.
If you are searching for entire headlines it will fail a lot. All it takes is one misstyped word.
I search by important words in the headline. In this instance. "killed" and "tribe" brings up all articles in descending order.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=killed%20tribe
Apologies if you already know this stuff. Not trying to condescend.