During one of the recent BBS upgrades, the default search parameters seem to have changed. IIRC, the defaults used to be:

Search Options: And
Date Range: All Posts

and now they seem to be:

Search Options: Entire Phrase
Date Range: Newer than 1 week

My fear with these options is that new users are going to do a search and not notice the options, and wonder why they're not getting any hits. This actually happened to me at first since the defaults changed at some point.

Don't we want people to by default search all posts, so that something that was discussed a few weeks ago comes up? Furthermore, don't we want a search like "empeg boot logo change software" to be an "and" query unless the user specifically wants to search for that exact phrase? Most search engines use "and" by default and make you actually do something to look for an exact phrase.

Just another suggestion to get people the help they need and help reduce noise. I have officially lost my battle of trying to keep up with the General forum due to the ungodly number of redundant posts lately, and I think changing the default search options might help.