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Old Sep 4, 2021 | 11:57 AM
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I need a bit of help searching the forum. I go to Advanced and then when the box opens for the terms you want to search, how do I search for two terms that must be together? I was just looking for the famous "red wire" issue. I tried red +wire and got nothing. When I search red wire, I get every post that mentioned either red or wire, which was about a zillion posts. How do I search for posts that must contain multiple terms?

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Try this string using Google.

c2 corvette "red wire" site:www.corvetteforum.com

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Originally Posted by Hermn59
Try this string using Google.

c2 corvette "red wire" site:www.corvetteforum.com

There has to be a better way to do this.
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Originally Posted by Joemac8
There has to be a better way to do this.

I have never figured out how to find hardly anything in the forum search so I just Goggle the subject and usually get several links for what I am looking for. The forum definitely need to work on their search feature.
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Originally Posted by Joemac8
There has to be a better way to do this.

Actually, the above works quite well. Just cut/paste that string of text and search it with your favorite browser. It pulled numerous threads about the red wire.
The Forum search is quite ticky.
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All you have to do is go to Google, enter "C2 red wire Corvette Forum" and you will get the Forum responses first, followed by others. Only way it could be any easier, Google would call you and ask you what you want to search for.


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Originally Posted by Joemac8
There has to be a better way to do this.
Consider CorvetteForum has over 53 million posts. Many sites like CorvetteForum, with the large amount of data, have Search limitations. Google's main business was Search. Few can match Google's Search without Google's resources. Therefore, there are times when using Google's search engine is recommended and will yield the results you may be looking for.
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Originally Posted by 65GGvert
All you have to do is go to Google, enter "C2 red wire Corvette Forum" and you will get the Forum responses first, followed by others. Only way it could be any easier, Google would call you and ask you what you want to search for.


Kind of the long way around the barn, but if it works- GREAT! Also, to get the results you received, you mustsearch with Google. I tried DuckDuckGo as well as Safari and the results were nothing like when actually searching with Google.

Thanks for the tip.

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