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Waze uses a third party forum software called phpBB to drive its forums.

This software has a feature that attempts to keep large searches from slowing down the forums for everyone. Unfortunately, this feature causes words that are commonly used to not be searchable.

A workaround for this is to use Google's site specific search to look for posts.

From the Google page, search for:

SITE:WWW.WAZE.COM/FORUM <your search term(s) here>

For example, to search for the phrase: no permissions

SITE:WWW.WAZE.COM/FORUM "no permissions"

Note that this workaround has a limitation that Google must have already indexed the topics being searched. Therefore, newer topics may not be available at the time of your search.

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+Waze uses a third party forum software called phpBB to drive its forums.
+This software has a feature that attempts to keep large searches from slowing down the forums for everyone. Unfortunately, this feature causes words that are commonly used to not be searchable.
-Waze uses a third party forum software called phpBB to run its forums on.
+A workaround for this is to use Google's site specific search to look for posts.
-This software has a feature that attempts to keep large searches from slowing down the forums for everyone. Unfortunately this feature causes words that are commonly used to not be searchable.
+From the Google page, search for:
-A workaround for this is to use Google's site specific search to look for posts.
-In Google search for:
+<code>SITE:WWW.WAZE.COM/FORUM <your search term(s) here></code>
-SITE:WWW.WAZE.COM/FORUM <your search term(s) here>
+For example, to search for the phrase: no permissions
-eg: no permissions
+<code>SITE:WWW.WAZE.COM/FORUM "no permissions"</code>
-SITE:WWW.WAZE.COM/FORUM "no permissions"
+Note that this workaround has a limitation that Google must have already indexed the topics being searched.  Therefore, newer topics may not be available at the time of your search.
-Note that this workaround has a limitation that Google would have to have indexed the topics being searched.  So newer topics may not be available at the time of your search.
+[[Category:Community Administration]]