posted 20 years ago
It was a JavaRanch (UBB) search in the beginning. For a while though we had to disable that because searches were taking up too many CPU cycles. Then some things were improved on the back end (including buying some more memory) and we were able to bring back the JavaRanch-specific search - but Google is still available. Both can be useful for different things. The JavaRanch search is better at finding all the relevant posts in a particular forum, but it can't easily search all forums. (That's still disabled, and even if it weren't it takes too long to wait for results.) Google can search all forums quickly, but it only knows about those posts that other people have linked to - so it misses a lot of stuff.
"I'm not back." - Bill Harding, Twister