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October 31st, 2006, 02:31 AM
|  | Grand Panjandrum | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: South of England
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In the past we used to have options on the search window to search MHF,
Mathworld or Wikipedia, which we no longer have.
Now I never had much success searching for threads on MHF that I knew
existed using the MHF option, so there is no great loss in it no longer being
available. But I still have a requirement to search for threads that I know
exist.
The strategy that I have developed to do this is to use Google with a
string such as "mathhelpforum captainblack ketword1 keyword1 ..." Now as
the search engines are cataloguing what is posted here every 10 days or so
this should turn up the thread/s of interest if they are old enough.
Experiment shows that this strategy works rather well (at least for me).
RonL |
October 31st, 2006, 03:24 AM
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Originally Posted by CaptainBlack  In the past we used to have options on the search window to search MHF,
Mathworld or Wikipedia, which we no longer have.
Now I never had much success searching for threads on MHF that I knew
existed using the MHF option, so there is no great loss in it no longer being
available. But I still have a requirement to search for threads that I know
exist.
The strategy that I have developed to do this is to use Google with a
string such as "mathhelpforum captainblack ketword1 keyword1 ..." Now as
the search engines are cataloguing what is posted here every 10 days or so
this should turn up the thread/s of interest if they are old enough.
Experiment shows that this strategy works rather well (at least for me).
RonL | Or you could use the search option in the navbar (the top blue bar where your usercp is)
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October 31st, 2006, 03:45 AM
| | Grand Panjandrum | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: South of England
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Originally Posted by Quick Or you could use the search option in the navbar (the top blue bar where your usercp is) | Except it does not work as well for some reason.
RonL |
November 28th, 2006, 03:31 PM
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I found something interesting
If you want to search a specific site for a keyword, the you type in:
site: www.yoursitehere.com
For example, type in "pi site:www.mathhelpforum.com" into the google search bar
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