There is a thread in Hot Deals titled "OfficeMax Weekly Ad..."

However, when I search for officemax, it doesn't show up in the results. I've tried different combinations, like officemax, OfficeMax, officemax weekly, etc.

Something is wrong with the search...

Is this the thread? http://forums.slickdeals.net/t18492.html?

I can't seem to pick it up via the key word "officemax" either. Maybe it is an index problem?

Posts older then 9-14-04 are no longer indexed.

Posts older then 9-14-04 are no longer indexed.

Well.. that explains a lot!!

Well.. IMO.. that sucks. I hate seeing reposts and its more annoying to know its a repost but not be able to find the original link.

Of course, thats just MY opinion. ;)

its because the indexing was taking way too much space.

Can we reliably count on indexing for six months back?

Um, if we can't search older than 6 months why store anything older than 6 months?
If it can't be found it's wasting space IMHO.
How about dropping some of the less useful forums (or other space saving ideas possibly) to allow indexing of older stuff.

If they don't search before reposting we can blame them, but if it's not showing up in a search because it's too old we're going to be dealing with the same things (at least in freebies) being reposted every 6 months over and over, I don't know how far back the forum goes, but that can't be a good use of space.