I've had some difficulties with searching the archives on this site, and I was wondering if this was because I'm missing something or if it's just a badly designed function.

Example: I once tried to find out what the origin of the whole Unrated/Classy meme was for Randy Winn, and went to the powersearch function and tried a bunch of different parameters (guessing that it originated at some time in March or April, which ultimately did turn out to be correct). The search function stalled out a couple times after a long wait, and other times just turned up random mentions of it. A good 15 minutes later I was no closer to finding the answer,  I then sheepishly asked during a game thread for the origin of the meme and someone (Natto?) instantly had a link.

Moral: Ask Natto? But really, I was wondering if anyone has advice for how to navigate the search function more efficiently, since it seems that some McCovenites have figured it out. Thanks.