This has been this way for a while now...

It seems there's a time period between, I'd say, 2008 and 2012 where you can't search for posts. Even when I try to be specific -- searching for keywords in posts under my name, for example -- I'll get the "no search results found" even though I KNOW they exist.

Maybe I'm not using the correct set of parameters: I post in descending order when I use a time parameter but again it seems like there's a time gap.

Also, I'm not able to search for a string. If I type in "Sta-Sof-Fro activator" I get 30+ pages of posts with "Sta-Sof-Fro" and "activator" in addition to "Sta-Sof-Fro activator."

Is it a performance thing -- restricting the search function -- or something else?

Thanks for any help you can provide.