Accepting the long term issues on using the search function on this site.. what has become of the purported 'advanced' search.

I wanted to look for examples of retrieving the userid in the access thread, looking for dev ashish, or PKStormy but all could get was the google search.. admittedly a heck of a lot faster than the old dbforums search, but it cam up with masses of references to threads that were not relevant to VBA/Access and I didnt' want to wade through pages of guff to find the posts I know exist there....

is this something I'm missing.... I know getting older, blinder, less willing to accept the limits of technology... or has it now disappeared for good. is it a browser issue...