Make sure you use the search function found in your user control panel above the forum (but below the site header). It has a magnifying glass icon. Try different "search types" as well, I think "All Words" never returns anything
well I think I'm using the correct search (the one with the magnifying glass) but a search for Dell from Forums returns 0 hits. If search is having some maintenance fine, I'll try later, but I wanted to see if I was doing something wrong