Anyone else annoyed the search searches all of google?

I’ve tried it couple of times but didn’t get expected results.

My search only searches Fluther.

@janbb You don’t get a bunch of websites at the top of the page?

Then at the bottom the fluther links, but it’s really hard for me to search for something and find it. I feel like sometimes I know I have a good search word and it just doesn’t work well.

I wonder if it only searches topics and not words used in questions or answers?

Nope. I get questions and Jelly names. Are you using the search box next to “Contact the mods”?

It happens to me. Very frustrating.

I had a look. On the desktop site it doesn’t do this. This is just on the mobile version. I have no idea why. We can ask Ben but I think it will be a low priority :-(

In the meantime try clicking on Desktop at the bottom of every page before searching. Not the best hack in the world, sorry

@Stinley Taht explains why I don’t have it; i’m nearly always on my desktop.

I just get fluther. Are you maybe signed out when you are on the fluther page and put something in search?

Oh, I forgot. Check your phone or computer settings. I know my phone searches work differently than my home computer. I don’t mean on fluther. I just mean in general.

@Stinley – I’m not sure why the behaviour should change if you’re using mobile / desktop version?

^^ I don’t know either but that’s what happened when I tried it.

You can limit a Google search by the search term site:fluther.com to get results only from Fluther. This works better than using the Fluther search tool anyway.

“All of Google” does not mean “the entire Internet.” Google isn’t a place or a body of information. It’s a telescope, not a universe.

@Jeruba Thanks. I never knew about using “site:” I’ll definitely try that.

It works well. Thanks @Jeruba!

My phone searches all of Google which is very annoying, but my computer does do the actual Fluther search. I don’t bother on my phone.