Thread: So much info - Searching SRP efficiently

I am often overwhelmed by the amount of information contained on SRP. It’s likely that most/all of the questions I would like answered have already been dealt with somewhere in the bowels of the forums and threads.

It seems that many long time members get frustrated with members asking questions that have been answered many times before. Based on my own experience, those repeat questions get asked because newbies either do not know about the search function or do not know how to nail down a search to get a set of results focused on what they want.

When I do a search, I initially get way more links to info than I can comfortably process. Wading through the linked threads to find what I am interested in takes a lot of time.

So, I thought it might be useful to have a thread that focused on how to use the search function of SRP to efficiently locate information. What I did not do, is make sure this wasn’t the focus of an already existing thread - wouldn’t that be ironic?