So, question for those who believe "use Google" is the one true answer...

How do you use it to return posts on a specific subject, by a specific author, in one or two specific sub forums? Not mentions/quotes of a person, but their posts... in specific sub forums, not just anywhere on the site.

That is the sort of thing that a local search engine *should* be able to do better than an external one... because it has - or should have - direct access to the database used to index all the posts in the first place.

If there's a simple way to accomplish this just using specific search syntax let me know. I'm not unfamiliar with the short form of boolean and regex syntax commonly used by search engines, so let's hear it.