[First_Salute]

There is a brand new posting [9608199 posted on 10/21/01 2:40 PM pacific by jern ] entitled:

Al-Qaeda terrorist duped FBI, Army

I just did a search, to test whether or not the FR search feature would find that post. Here is the criteria:

title: "terrorist"

Results:

No posts found in 7.881 seconds.

Again, the FR search engine does not work reliably.

The page --- http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?t=22 --- has no clear link button to another page which should have search tips. The word "search" is not even on the page.

Searching for previous posts is NOT reliable.

[Sidebar Moderator]

Try your search again, using just the word : terrorist (leave out the title: part)

I agree, that the search function is not all it should be, but I find that using a key word from the title will usually bring good results.

Of course, this assumes that people use the original article title, which is a whole other problem.

[snopercod]

I just post stuff from Investor's Business Daily. Since I have to type it in myself, I don't have to worry about a previous post.

Someday I may be surprised, though...