Dock, in the interest of sharing knowledge <g> (forgive me if you already know this), Google can overcome a couple of forum limitations that you mention.
You can google with site:blitzbasic.com "search phrase here" to get proper phrase searches (and sometimes using site:blitzmax.com will pick up other posts, even if they aren't Max related). And Google's cache is able to show what a old post once contained, even after it's been deleted.
It takes a while for Google to get around to indexing posts, though, so a search won't find very recent ones. And if a post is deleted shortly after being created, it won't ever be indexed (and thus never cached).
You can google with site:blitzbasic.com "search phrase here" to get proper phrase searches (and sometimes using site:blitzmax.com will pick up other posts, even if they aren't Max related). And Google's cache is able to show what a old post once contained, even after it's been deleted.
It takes a while for Google to get around to indexing posts, though, so a search won't find very recent ones. And if a post is deleted shortly after being created, it won't ever be indexed (and thus never cached).