Couldn't the admins just make a search feature in the forums?
Back in the olden days they had an option to turn the current "search games" bar into a community search bar, but they removed it. I think it only searched by thread name though, and for a search drawing from every word of every topic in the history of the forum, I think it was just more economical to keep it separate from the website itself.
Justtesting. I just used the link R2 provided to the search bar. It is up-to-date. I searched my name "Rychus" and It came up with things that I've posted today, and things I posted before. I even found my very first post.
It's fine to use google to search the forums, I was just wondering why there wasn't a forum search in the site. Maybe the admins could just put a link to the google search somewhere in the forums instead. That would make it easier for ppl to find help.