I get 51 results when I used the search term "posted" — but be sure you include the "" around the word posted, or any other word that the vBulletin bulletin board software which powers FlyerTalk thinks is very common or too short.

Please let me know if this works for you.

Yes! Thank you very much. Was not accustomed to putting quotes around a single-word search term-- but that works!

I never reported that I am able to successfully search for two-character and even one-character terms when using "" around the term used for searching.

However, the use of quotation marks has worked for me when searching titles only, results in titles, for extremely common terms (see Canarsie's post immediately above) or terms using three or fewer characters. "ba" works quote well to find any threads in the American Aadvantage forum, for example, containing the term BA, or "lax" for LAX. (Case is not of consequence when using search, AFAIK.)

Maybe it's just me, but anyone notice that when trying to search for a certain topic (broad or detailed), using google and typing 'flyertalk' at the end of the search works better than using the actual search bar on Flyertalk itself?

I am really heaving hard times with the search. According to the FAQs, use of an asterisk should work (oh blessing!).
I would like to search for Meli* in forum titles, because sometimes it's Melia and sometimes it's Meliá and because I am a smart user, I dare to hope that I can avoid two searches. But searching for Meli* in forum titles gives no results. Neither does Melia or Meliá work :confused:.
Could somebody please open my eyes?
Thanks

Best way to search FT is use " Melia site:flyertalk.com " in google
Searching on the ibrands software is limited

Adding quoation mark to your key-word searches...
 

When using FT Search, the more effective way for a key word search is to put the key word in "" (double quotation mark), aka typing "Melia" or "Meliá", than using asterisk. I got tons of results when searching seperately for "Melia" & "Meliá", in both thread title only and Search Entire Posts. You do have to perform 2 searches though since Melia and Meliá are 2 different words that render 2 sets of different results.

Hope it helps!

I received 49 results for Melia when searching for titles only on FlyerTalk — without using quotes.

Could you please give more details about how you searched so that I may further assist you?

I believe the use of wildcards in search is no longer possible on FlyerTalk. The closest thing I know of is to go to google search and use the Boolean OR function:

Click the Search pulldown in the menu bar near the top of the page
Click Google Search in the pulldown box
Make sure the radio button for flyertalk.com is selected
Type the following string in the search field: Melia OR Meliá OR Melias
(Note the word OR must be in all caps)

Otherwise, just do separate searches.

Good luck!

The search term is:
Melia OR Meliá
So this is a boolean OR, because I want to avoid two searches.

The following search term also does not give anything:
Meli*

@Google search: I can use wildcards here, but I can't restrict the search to thread titles only, can I?
Thanks

The * used to give wildcard searches; but it currently seems to be nothing more than a superfluous character.

I received the same results as you with Meli*, which is nothing. As a test, I then attempted Star* as a search term. In the past, I would have received results for Starwood and Starpoints; but in this case, I only received the same results which I would have received if I used Star instead of Star*.

I do not believe that you can restrict Google search to titles of discussions only. I suppose that is the tradeoff.

I personally would like the ability to search images on FlyerTalk using Google search; but I have not found a way to do that.

I will contact someone from Internet Brands to hopefully participate in this discussion to let us know what can be done; what used to be functional but is not anymore and for what reason; and what is possible to implement in the future.

Thanks a lot.
No matter what question, I am sure there is already a thread about it somewhere in the depths of these forums. A powerful search functionality (and I consider wildcards a must for this) would be very handy for finding it...

Looking into the issue with FT specific search.

Regarding google - it can be targeted to only search a specific forum or a specific thread.

Examples of Google query (without quotes):

" site:flyertalk.com inurl:forum/information-desk/ technical "

Specific thread search:

" site:flyertalk.com inurl:/forum/information-desk/676224-using-search-feature-flyertalk-definitive-thread technical "

is there a table showing what all the single character fare types represent?