Search engine?

Well, luckily you asked about a topic that people usually spell out correctly in their posts. Note that you can also filter a Rick Steves search for recent “time.” Have you found the blue Search box? It works better than many other newsboards:

https://search.ricksteves.com/?button=&filter=Travel+Forum&query=Cinque+terre+ct&utf8=%E2%9C%93

You can also Google on something like "Rick Steves forum Cinque Terre" and then under Tools pick "Past Year" to get the most recent ones.

Hey Randy Im not sure if you used the CT as an example but if it is the CT you are interested in I found this web site to be very helpful planning my trip to the CT and the surrounding area a few years back. https://www.apathtolunch.com/p/area-infolinks.html

Whenever you search anything, there appears a ‘filter by type’ bar that allows you to narrow down the results to forum, and/or articles, tour info, etc.

I find the Search function here (on a desktop computer, look for the magnifying glass) really, really weak. I either read back through the appropriate forum (which will work fairly well since CT or some spelling of "Cinque Terre" will often appear in the thread title) or I use Google as has already been suggested.

The search box at the top of this page seems to work reasonably well. If you enter a few key words (ie: Cinque Terre, Vernazza, Monterosso) and then set the filters to search "Forum only", you should come up with some relevant results. Unfortunately I'm not sure if it's possible to filter for "newest first" posts, but hopefully that will be added in future.