I agree, the search function on the site has been pretty slow and unhelpful to me recently... it seems like it has it's good days, and it's bad days! In the meanwhile, I have just created my own search page, which I keep like an icon on my desktop..and just click it whenever I want to search Xoops. I actually started doing this a while ago, when another site I frequent pulled the plug on it's search function, due to spammer abuse.
Anyways, here is the code if you want to make a similar page yourself:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Search Xoops!</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#333399">
<table width="30%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td>
<center>
<form method="GET" action="http://www.google.com/search" target="_blank"><input type="hidden" name="domains" value="xoops.org"><input TYPE="text" name="q" size="25" maxlength="255" value><input type="submit" name="btnG" value="Google">
<br><input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value="xoops.org" checked>
<font color="#FFFFCC">Xoops.org <input type="radio" name="sitesearch" value>www</font>
</form>
</center>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Just create a blank html page, and paste in this code. Then just keep the file somewhere handy, where you can click on it when you want to search the site.
(If you want, add in the following Adsense publisher id... ok, forget it :) )



























