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03-28-2017, 05:26 PM
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Forum Search Technique
The recent thread about EB vs. RB body styles reminded me of my frustration with the search feature in the forum. Does anyone know how to search for a phrase? For example, to find the phrase "extended body" rather than posts showing the word"extended" or the word "body".
Don
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03-28-2017, 05:52 PM
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The easiest way I've found is to use google. Searching for the phrase 'extended body', you would type: "extended body" site:sportsmobileforum.com.
When you use quotations on two or more words, it will search those words together. When you type in 'site:sportsmobileforum.com' it will only search on that website.
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03-28-2017, 06:28 PM
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Cool tip. I didn't know that.
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03-28-2017, 09:21 PM
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Yeah, great tip mikracer. Thanks!
BTW, I'm looking for a barn-doored RB body swap for a '99 7.3 if anyone knows of one. I think up to '07 swaps easily.
Thanks,
Robert
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03-28-2017, 09:43 PM
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Google has been my to-go search method as well. You still may miss a few posts but it sure works better than the site search for often answered questions & topics.
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03-28-2017, 10:07 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mikracer
The easiest way I've found is to use google. Searching for the phrase 'extended body', you would type: "extended body" site:sportsmobileforum.com.
When you use quotations on two or more words, it will search those words together. When you type in 'site:sportsmobileforum.com' it will only search on that website.
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Thanks. The quotes are a standard convention, IIRC, but don't work in the forum. The old forum let you search within results, which was pretty nice. Unfortunately, the current incarnation does neither.
Don
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Life and baseball both sometimes are not fair, but it is how you play the hops that counts. —Scott Miller, NYT Sports
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03-29-2017, 07:42 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rionapo
...The old forum let you search within results, which was pretty nice. Unfortunately, the current incarnation does neither.
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Completely agree. That's one thing I really miss, and which I think has been contributing to the constant new threads being generated on already existing topics. The previous incarnation of the forum was hosted in a different environment/operating system, so I don't think the 'search within search results' is possible. Early on in the forum transition, I mentioned it to the forum administrator but no joy.
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03-29-2017, 10:22 AM
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great advise guys!
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03-29-2017, 11:46 AM
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mlkracer's comment about advanced search techniques woke me up and reminded me of the wide variety of modifications you can make to focus a search. I've been frustrated lately because I know we have threads about camp tables but I can't locate any using the crippled search feature in the forum. This query gives a bingo first time (Note: It shows up as two lines on a small screen but it's one line only.)
REI + "folding table" site:sportsmobileforum.com A simplified summary of advanced search operators, as they are called, is here
https://www.lifewire.com/advanced-google-search-3482174 And Google's version is here
https://support.google.com/websearch.../2466433?hl=en An important note: These operators work with most search engines. I usually use DuckDuckGo because it doesn't track me, switching to Google when I don't get an answer from DDG.
Don
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Life and baseball both sometimes are not fair, but it is how you play the hops that counts. —Scott Miller, NYT Sports
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