DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Help Beginners Help Themselves

A dumb question:

Could the default settings on the forum Search page be changed to

Forums = All Open Forums, and
Search From = The Beginning and Newer?

A minor annoyance, yes, but something a newbie searcher might miss as I did when my first search covered only the last month's posts in the current forum.

Now that must be

THE BEST D*MN IDEA I'VE READ IN A LONG TIME!

After a while, you get sick of having to tell the newbies to "Search the forum, choose ALL FORUMS and choose FROM THE BEGINNING or NEWER" for the millionth time.

Also, a nice blurb at the top of the Search page that explains the keyword syntax using examples like this would also help:

If you search for:

dog cat

then your results will be every thread that contains the word "dog" or "cat".

If you really wanted to search for ALL of the words (like google or Yahoo), you should type it in like this:

dog AND cat

original here.