Question about the forum

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Hello, I am new here.
I have a question about how to use the forum. Is there a way to search a keyword between topics? I don't want to start a new topic if there is already one about it. But I couldn't find a way except going through all the topics under connected title. For example I want to ask something under the Womens group, but maybe the same question was asked before so I want to be sure about it. But there are too many pages to check one by one. CTRL+F only checks the page I am on.

If you're looking at the forum from a computer there is a search field at the top just below "My Account". If you're on a mobile device open a subforum, "Women's" for example, there will be the same search field at the bottom of the page.

Like so:
https://wrongplanet.net/search-results/?cx=partner-pub-8703422890298959%3Aq5of6baj6hj&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=blah&sa=Submit

Welcome to the forum.

oops , I thought that search button gave only Google results

Thanks!

Look at the screen.

Right below where it says "log out"...right above the part of that blue band -the part that says 'Therapies & Services', and even with the Wrong Planet trademark, you will see a little white space with a 'Q' followed by the word "search".

Just type in your search word, and then all of the stuff about that word will come up.

search.php

The search feature is a bit flaky. Sometimes it says it cannot work right now. When this happens to me I use my own “geometric backoff”. I wait one second (by counting to 1 in my head) and try again, then 2 seconds then 4 then 8 then 16 (and so on). Sometimes it works at 1 sometimes it works at 16 or anything in between.
You can also use goggle.
Add “site:wrongplanet.net” to your searches after your keywords.

This is the correct answer, works much better than the janky site search, even more so if you use quotation marks to look for a specific phrase.