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Topic: How do I search NintendoLife Forums?

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Howard24U

This may sound like a basic question, but how does one go about searching within the NintendoLife forums? It seems like it would be the most basic of capabilities, perhaps the browser I'm using is incompatible, so I'm not seeing a search box or something?

The search box on the top of every page searches the entire site, but all of the results are clustered together. Searching for "Mario 3D World" for instance, yields 48,000+ results because the search is actually going through the text of every article and individual forum post. What I'm really looking to do is just search by forum topic so I can make sure I'm not bringing up a topic that's already been discussed, or if I'm trying to find the main forum topic about a particular game...

I did stumble across this through a google search https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/search but it looks like it was never implemented on the website.

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Howard24U

Veloster

Howard24U wrote:

This may sound like a basic question, but how does one go about searching within the NintendoLife forums? It seems like it would be the most basic of capabilities, perhaps the browser I'm using is incompatible, so I'm not seeing a search box or something?

The search box on the top of every page searches the entire site, but all of the results are clustered together. Searching for "Mario 3D World" for instance, yields 48,000+ results because the search is actually going through the text of every article and individual forum post. What I'm really looking to do is just search by forum topic so I can make sure I'm not bringing up a topic that's already been discussed, or if I'm trying to find the main forum topic about a particular game...

I did stumble across this through a google search https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/search but it looks like it was never implemented on the website.

When you're using the search function, the trick is to be very exact in what you searching for.
For example, searching "Mario 3D World" gave me everything - but then I searched "Mario 3D World Topic", and it was the 2nd result.

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Tasuki

You can also use google. Just Input 'site:nintendolife.com/forums whatever you're searching for'

so in your case you would put

site:nintendolife.com/forums Mario 3D World

and then press enter. That's how I search for certain topics and it hasn't failed me once.

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