How does search work, or is it working? I was looking for this thread: Is this black oak? No, it's red oak, Quercus rubra 1 - I searched by clicking Search on the Navigation bar, then under advanced search for wcutler (find posts by user), keyword oak, and it returned nothing. 2 - I searched in Plants ID by clicking Search this Forum, under advanced search for wcutler (find posts by user), keyword oak, and it returned nothing. 3 - I searched by clicking Search on the Navigation bar, just a regular search for red oak. It returned nothing. So I tried oak. Also nothing. Twice I ended up searching in the Links Database. But I'm not able to repeat that now. I really don't think I entered my search term in the bottom box that searches that, but I can't prove it.
Re: Is seach working? In cases like this Google's site search function is sometimes a suitable substitute; it depends on the combination of words used in the query.
Re: Is seach working? There can't be an exception list? A botanical garden site should be able to handle a search for oak and ash and elm. And yew, fig, fir, gum and tea, which I names I found in a google search for three-lettered tree names. Well, and oat, haw, and nut. Hmm - maybe allow three letters but exclude "and" and "the". Maybe the system just comes this way and you don't get options?
We seem to have lost this ability now. I'm not sure exactly what you did to make it work before. I searched on ito-zakura, got all the posts with zakura, which is almost all the cherries, but there seems to be a 10-page limit, as it ended at 2016, no option to see more. I searched on oak, and on elm, got no results. I did figure out to search for "ito-zakura" with the quotes, which worked. And "oak tree" works , but I think oak tree returns everything with tree.
This also means that a search on yae-beni-shidare returns 'beni-shidare', which is a different tree. "Yae" doesn't occur in that hit.
I know you said you can't doing anything about this, but it was very frustrating tonight trying to find postings on Rhododendron 'May Day'. See if you can do it. I could not. I finally found them in some last year's postings by browsing. I didn't remember that I even had that in the subject line. Appreciation: - Three in the Greig Rhododendron Garden | UBC Botanical Garden Forums Identification: - Which is the real 'May Day'?
I can't even do a search for Out and About, even if it's all in quotes, whether or not I search only titles. OK, it's on the first page in How's it Growing, but I didn't see it, since Appreciation is what's at the margin, so I tried the search.
