Searching for a thread

[four.cycle]

I went looking for the "Anyone else like Channellocks?" thread.
So I click "Search"
and I type in "channellock"
and then select "title only"
and I get no fewer than eighteen pages of search results - all threads having the word "channellock" (or channellocks) in the title.
After about eleven pages I started over and searched for "anyone channellock" and found the thread I was looking for right away.

So this begs the question:
WHY did the authors of the software package on which this website is built NOT build in an option to filter the thread search, possibly by:
date (most recently started, not most recently commented on)
most popular (number of replies)

If you can write code, you can write code.
So why wasn't this feature written into the software?

 

[Junkman]

I found it in less than a minute. I use DuckDuckGo search engine and used your description of the thread that you were looking for (Anyone else like Channellocks?). DDG uses the Google search engine, and it is my opinion that Google knows more about us than our mothers do.

Anyone else like Channellocks?

A few weeks ago I posted in a thread concerning "binge" tool buying. During the last couple months, I've been on a Channellock kick that I think has subsided for the moment. For years, prior to my recent "BHB" (Blue Handled Binge), I owned only two Channellock tools, the #442 (far left) and...

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[four.cycle]

Over 90% of the planet is using Google.
What if I was just looking for "the most popular Channellock thread", and had no idea what the thread title might have been?

This was an oversight on the part of the authors of the software - they simply didn't think it all the way through.
There should be some mechanism by which the unknowing user (using GOOGLE, like 90% of the rest of the world) can find what they're looking for.