Am I the only person who can never use the search facility successfully?

It doesn't work! Never has done as far I am aware. ☹

you are in the big group of all of us

Sasta
Without giving anything personal away could you give an instance of what you’re searching for.

I tried "taxes" just now for a try out with no luck. It seems to be irregular.

And tried again just now and it did work! sometimes you have to wait.

Yes, working, I just put in the title of this thread and it came up/

I use it quite regularly and it always works. I put the key word of the thread I’m looking for and a few options come up.

It works to an extent, but can be very frustrating. If I search for a thread I often get that daft picture of a cow saying it’s been moooved. Then the option to go back just throws you out completely. Sometimes the thread’s been deleted, but not always. Also, searching for a subject, I used to get the option of showing the most recent posts first, on my old desktop. That option’s not there on my iPhone.

I have used it and find the first ten or so items are unrelated to Gransnet but you can find them far down the list and you have to be very accurate in your wording.

petra

Sasta
Without giving anything personal away could you give an instance of what you’re searching for.

I’ve tried loads of times, to follow up on various recommendations, using keywords mostly as I never remember who posted, but haven’t ever had a result. 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s very poor it works a bit sometimes but what I find most frustrating is when I want to go back to a thread say 6 months old it will never allow me saying it’s Mooo ved with a picture of a cow but other posters seem to resurrect really old old threads HOW???

If the Gransnet search doesn't work, just use Google to search Gransnet Type in your search cues then type Gransnet.

OldFrill

If the Gransnet search doesn't work, just use Google to search Gransnet Type in your search cues then type Gransnet.

That's what I do.

Never worked for me.

I used Pittcity's method as the search facility has never worked for me.

I've never got it to work.

BlueBelle

It’s very poor it works a bit sometimes but what I find most frustrating is when I want to go back to a thread say 6 months old it will never allow me saying it’s Mooo ved with a picture of a cow but other posters seem to resurrect really old old threads HOW???

Tell me something you’d like to find and I’ll see if I can find it,
I have found some old threads that a poster mentioned, amusing ones.They kept me laughing all night.

just put the key word into google, with gransnet added, in the search bar.
always seems to work.

Well I can’t just pull something out the air Oreo how do you find an old thread when it says it’s Mooo ved ?

It isnt any use at all and gransnet dont bother. Just something else to add to the list.

BlueBelle

Well I can’t just pull something out the air Oreo how do you find an old thread when it says it’s Mooo ved ?

I haven’t seen that BlueBelle so will take a look, realistically all the old threads should be available.

Here’s an example

Ok.
Have just tried three different topics, moving house, toddlers, and Boris Johnson.😄
I didn’t get the moo cow, but did find the threads, some very old back to 2015.
I’m looking on an iPad.

What thread were you looking for when the cow pic popped up?