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Forum Suggestion, more efficient searching

A suggestion for the forums rather than the actual game software, the Google custom search is great for searching the whole forum when you don't know where you might find the information you're looking for but not so great for targetted searches (like when you know you have an API query or are looking to see if the suggestion you're about to post has been posted before) Is it possible to add some functionality to search individual forums?
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Pat S.
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Good suggestion.
I've had a similar issue with the forum search function. Just as an example, say I want to search the forums for games under a certain system. There's no option to search specific forum sections, but that's fine; there shouldn't be that many topics about it anywhere but LFG. Let's say, for instance, that I search "eclipse phase" since that's the game I'm looking for. The problem is that the search returns a topic from a year ago at the very top . That wouldn't be so bad...if I could tell when the last post was added without having to click on it. I'm not really asking for much, just a time stamp. Maybe it's something you could request from Google, since it's their search function you're using. It seems like something very simple to implement, or I wouldn't ask. I know that the normal Google search from their site will put a date or "x hours ago", "x days ago", etc. on some of the results. I'd like to see something similar.
In a similar vein, I think it would be useful to allow the community to tag forum posts.