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A Better Way To Search The Forum

Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2021 9:55 am
by TheVoice
The last time I checked, the vb-audio forum search function was broken; that's what I'd call it. For those that don't have a workaround, here is a method that seems to work well. Use this format when doing a google search. I use duck duck go, but it should work with any search engine: site:forum.vb-audio.com insert asio. In this example, insert asio was the search term. Just use site:forum.vb-audio.com. After .com leave a space and then enter the search term. Hope this helps somebody.

Re: A Better Way To Search The Forum

Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2021 11:12 am
by Vincent Burel
thanks for this workaround! the forum search function is very bad... and for the moment we have not the resource to improve it.

Re: A Better Way To Search The Forum

Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2021 2:07 pm
by xcasxcursex
I'm using duckduckgo for this, too. It occurs to me, it may be helpful to embed that search on this site. There's a page here for automatically generating a search box to do this: https://duckduckgo.com/search_box

I took the dimensions from this site and made an example. This generated a search box like so:

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<iframe src="https://duckduckgo.com/search.html?width=208&site=forum.vb-audio.com&prefill=VB-Audio Forum Search" style="overflow:hidden;margin:0;padding:0;width:266px;height:40px;" frameborder="0"></iframe>
Maybe this is helpful?

Re: A Better Way To Search The Forum

Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:42 pm
by TheVoice
I've seen the duck duck go box used on another website. I'm assuming implementing that solution would not require nearly as much resources as doing it internally.