I just tried, and got 10 pages of gardenweb ikea pantry. I even cut and pasted your quotes. Wonder if it's some sort of cache problem on your computer?

hmmmm, glad I asked. I think I'll delete all cookies and browsing history and see what happens.

Luck!

what the heck? One gardenweb and all houzz, pinterest, etc...

Raven?!

the proper format for a google search, to restrict results to pages on THIS site, would be

ikea pantry site:ths.gardenweb.com

(because "ths.gardenweb.com" is the URL. Use the actual URL of any other site for similar searches restricted to one particular site. Put the search term in quote marks "ikea pantry" if you want to search for that specific sequence of words. Otherwise, the search is for pages that have both words anywhere on the page, not necessarily in the same order and not necessarily together as the search line shows)

I've been noticing this for a long time. When I google anything remotely related to decorating or anything - the latest was looking up pictures and info on landscaping - and the majority of the results were either Houzz or pinterest. i don't have a pinterest acct and so I can't even look at those pictures. And the Houzz information, as far as I'm concerned, is pretty useless.

It's like between the two of them they have taken over the internet. Are they by any chance connected in any way?

I have to really narrow my search parameters.

That's a habit I never got into Lindsey...the old GW was plagued by a notoriously bad search engine. Thanks for reminding me about it.

Snidely, yup. That worked. Thanks so much. I wonder why the shift? I never needed to do that before.

blf, I too wonder if they're connected somehow. I imagine there is a money trail that drives this...

I do as Lindsey suggested; I use the search button at the top of the page. You can narrow your search to the different forums, which is nice.

I assumed at first this thread was going to be about searching within Garden Web, am not sure the existing function is all that great either.