Austin Healey - the BCF Search feature

[davidb]

OK - I don't know quite how to raise this subject, and I don't want to feel like I'm going to get a pie in the face (unless of course it's key lime), but I have some difficulty in using BCF's "Search" feature. I noted that a number of others (including Basil's bang-on comment on properly identifying the "Subject") have had a similar observation. If I search for help on a specific item, I seem to get pages and pages of non-related information. Unless you follow specific subjects on a daily basis and have a decent memory, trying to pick up threads especially for newcomers is a real adventure.

I'm definitely not being critical, because this is such a good site and as I've mentioned before, most of you( Greg W, Cottontop, Keoke, Ausmhly, Doc Entropy, to name just a few) are so helpful, knowledgeable, and quick to reply that logging on to this site is as good a resource as, if not better than the shop manual and Anderson/Moment's book combined, and it's fun to boot.

Anyhow, does anyone else have the same difficulty, or am I the only one suffering from one too many spells of reefer madness from the 60s/70s (I never inhaled). What the heck am I doing wrong? Where am I and what are those little green men doing in my back yard?


Cheers
Dave

 

[GregW]

Hi Dave,
What I've found is the fewer words (or just one descriptive word) makes the search narrower. I believe there are ways to make an "or" search, but I'd have to read up on it. So if you do a search for brake booster, you'd get everything for brakes including rear brake, parking brake, etc. Where just booster would give you better hits. You can also enclose your search with quotes: "brake booster", but I think that may actually filter out a couple useful threads.

 

[GregW]

Oh, by the way
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[davidb]

Greg W

Clever devil. My first good laugh of the day, apart from looking in the mirror. "I love the smell of key lime pie in the morning"

And thanks as well for the tutorial.

Cheers
Dave