Is there a reason why the forum search feature only searches the title of posts and not the posts themselves?

I'm thinking it would be exceptionally helpful, especially on SteamTrades.com, if the search included at least the original post. Otherwise, searching there for a game is only going to work if it's in the title, which means manually looking through everyone who has a list in their original post.

I'm trying to find a post that had some discussion on a game, but since the game isn't in the title, I won't find it unless I remember what the title was. That makes the search feature have very limited usefulness.

Perhaps an "Advanced Search" feature might eventually be added which could search "titles" or "titles and posts" or "titles, posts and replies" depending on a radio select or something.

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Use google there is some way to search the site using google

1 decade ago
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Use Google, Given the Context of this site if someone Typed a games name they would get soo many Results, hence why it reads just the title.

I choose to believe thats the reason for that xD

1 decade ago
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Sounds like a good idea in theory. And in theory, theory and practice are the same.

But in practice...

Google can find what I'm hypothetically looking for tomorrow. I want to find it now. Why have a search feature if it's that broken?

1 decade ago
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It's not broken. Better to have a simple search engine than nothing at all.

Try other search engines too. Bing can find some stuff Google can't

1 decade ago
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Closed 1 decade ago by semifamous.