Thanks - good to know I wasn't imagining it! Will try the method you suggest.

I had to remove the Google search because I couldn't filter out explicit posts from the results and that violated Google's policies.

You can sort of achieve the same thing by going to Google and searching like this:

"site:www.dcurbanmom.com search terms" where "search terms" are your actual search terms.

I thought there used to be an option when you selected "Search" to also use a google search for the entire board. Did I imagine that?