I have noticed that when doing a search in any of the busier forums that most of the matches consist of an answer of "do a search on..."

Is it possible for the admin or moderators to set a "noindex" tag on messages like this? It discourages users from continuing to look through matches if there are a large number of them.

There you go - if it's not possible, then your next project can be writing a forum that does that ;o)

Call it Gossamer-Threaded or something.