@HabBear lol, bitcointalk is a nest of venial creatures.

@gentlemand you you're right, I've been using google and site: for bitcointalk extensively. the problem is that it finds a lot of irrelevant posts too, from a myriad of other threads. Topics on the forum are well separated on their own and when lookng for a say a "setting" or a "script" in relation to some card or the hashrate or drivers versions, you end up with a lot of irrelevant posts from other threads and this requires you to search inside the search results.

Being able to search withing the specific thread is much more precise, specially for things that you've seen before and know the thread where you saw them.

Like I said, when visualizing a thread, the search box is limited to the thread only, so that works. Thanks to TryNinja for pointing that out.