No problems, and while I am a noob to this site...and even having a motorcycle (anywhere in the world) I am not a noob on forums having operated and hosted them on my own servers. Even my new company website will have a well integrated forum and social media platform that has been merged to operate seamlessly with the Magento e-commnerce system..I am an expert in websites, and you are correct the basic search is about useless. However the advanced search offers up too many results to be very useful, and if you use more than 3 words it often returns nothing. An advanced search using basic search words/phrases is frustrating at best. I do not fault the folks here, vBulletin is not really that good, especially since its a commercial product. Personally I prefer phpBB3, Kunena (Joomla) but I am a coder so I like "open" platforms. Also it could be more useful to have the site moderators merge subjects that are similar so searches return more accurate results.

The problem with Google searches are that, like so many issues in China, it greatly depends on where you live as to the correct answers. A forum is a good place to build a personal relationship with folks who may have and share real experiences from the area in question. Also I see that while there is a degree of user activity here, many of the search results are dated, often by several years. There is little useful information to be gleamed from a 3 year old post in a country where everything changes while you sleep. That said, yes you have replied with useful information and I am thankful, and as mentioned was not trying to be an ass.