Groups: Discussion Search

RealTown Groups now offers searching capabilities to help you find discussions of interest. To search group discussions, visit the new Discussion Search page.

The Discussion Search page gives you powerful searching capabilities to find discussions across all public groups. Additionally, if you are logged in, your search results will also include discussions from your private groups.

You can also perform a search within a particular group by using the search form found on that group's "All Discussions" page.

Advanced Searching Options

You can perform advanced search queries directly from the input field by specifying the field you want to search for. For example, you can search for discussions that John Reilly has participated in by searching for "author:John Reilly".

Here's a list of all of the available search fields and how they work:

• Author: Searches the "posted by" field for posts written by the specified author.
• Subject: Limit your search to only the subject field.
• Contents: Limit your search to only the post contents.

For the geek in all of us, the Discussion Search also supports boolean operators. In plain English, words like "AND" and "OR" can be used to help direct the search engine on what to find.

For example, searching for "realtor AND agency" will return results that contain both of the words. If you search for "realtor OR agency", then discussions matching either of the two words will be returned.

You can also use the word NOT to exclude results that contain a certain phrase. For example, if you searched for "realtor NOT agency" will return all discussions that contain the word "realtor" and not the word "agency".

If you have any questions about Discussion Search please let us know.