Is the Google search better/different than the forumotion search?

What the title says.

The forumotion search engine is rather... crappy so if the Google one is better I'll use that.

Well... I think that both of them can work very fine... I use forumotion's but google is a good solution too !

So are they different or the same?

Hi,

It comes down to your personal opinion.
In terms for searching for a team with less then 4 keywords, the Google search is better, as the internal function can only search for 4 or more words.

The Google one also has been known to be more, relevant to what you want, but not always on your forum, for example, I may "Google" the team "Chatbox error" from the advanced search, or widget, and it wouldn't just redirect me to the Google search, but bring in results from non-forumotion forums.
Where as, the built in search would just simply, blow up and destroy the world because it's less then 4 words long (Not literally )
If I use the term "text alignment with chatbox" the internal function would work better then the Google alternative; it would only bring in selections from THIS forum and not redirect you to the Google search page.

So really, it's a matter of personal opinion, and the length of what your "searching" for