How does the software handle message searching?

 We support the very powerful SQL Server Full-Text Search Engine for searching messages.

Full-Text Indexing can really speed up the whole search work (by over 100% in some cases). And it returns sorted results by relevance and weight. This is really powerful because this type of search not only lessens your server loads (which directly translates into user experiences) but also increases your members' forum experiences because only relevant records that are returned to them.
 
Our search engine has several criteria for you to specify to further refine the result:

• Member name (wild card support);
• Forum name (drop down list);
• Search Topics or Replies (or both);
• Subject or Message body (or both);
• Match pattern (all words, any words, or exact phrase);
• Time frame of the messages (within or after certain dates);
• Only top X results.

Your members can also locate members based on profiles data on the Member List page.