"Better" way to search this forum.

[rowdyplace]

Well, in my opinion - anyway.

This DIY sub forum is packed with some excellent knowledge often buried deep within a thread of a different name. I have not been overly impressed with the forum's built in search function. It always produces site wide results.

Wanting to just search a sub forum, and limit my findings to only those in that sub forum, I went to Google for help.

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I wanted to find all of the mentions of the word "booze".

Make sure you are at Google. Then, enter the following search criteria:

booze site:e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/diy-e-liquid

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The "red" is the exact search term for which you seek data. You can also search for a multi word string like killa vanilla.
The "blue" is the google command. This instructs google to use the site specified after the colon.
The "green" is the specific site to be searched. Notice I specified the sub forum for DIY

There very well may be more ways to apply this google advanced search feature, but I found out all I needed to know...





***edit***mods - you may move this to wherever it may need to go. I mainly use this sub forum.***

 

[wllmc]

thanks rowdy. I use google also , Ill google .... chocolate ecf or ecf DIY ... Ill try your method. the ECF search engine just plain sucks.

 

[horton]

Thanks very much, rowdy. Using Google seems to be much more "precise" than searching on the forum itself. Don't know why. Appreciate the well spelled out tip.

 

[rowdyplace]

Thanks for this early morning praise...

I was pretty impressed with myself...(LOL)

I did add it to my blogs. Check them out. I'm proud of them, also.

Nothing like a good redneck approach to all this technical stuff!

 

[RocketPuppy]

Anytime I need to search in ECF, I'll google ecig forum and then add my query to that. Thanks for the advice. I thought you were an old fart. Didn't realize you're a redneck old fart. =)

 

[RocketPuppy]

We can all use praise =)

 

[rowdyplace]

Anytime I need to search in ECF, I'll google ecig forum and then add my query to that. Thanks for the advice. I thought you were an old fart. Didn't realize you're a redneck old fart. =)

I was born January 1945, and I still do not know what I want to be or do when I grow up! ;-)

Speaking of praise, RocketPuppy, you certainly are due some. You have done all of us a tremendous service by categorizing and indexing so many of these DIY "slippery" facts and saving them in your blog.

"Good Girl!!" Thank you!!

 

[RocketPuppy]

I don't consider anyone who continues and wants to learn more an old fart. Just had to tease you. When you originally called yourself an old fart, I assumed you were much older. You're a spring chicken. My mom is the same age and is currently on vacation climbing mountains in Maine (or somewhere over there).
And thank you. I'm a chaotic person, so lists bring some normalcy to my life.

 

[Huckleberried]

I had trouble the other day searching for something in a specific thread without reading all 9000 pages of it. Someone suggested to me the "search thread" button at the top. Helped immensely. BUT...... google does exactly that. Leads to me to ECF

 

[Exchaner]

Thanks everyone for the helpful tips. They make things a lot easier. But how do you memorize all those string of characters you need to type - starting with E-cigarette ...................ring , just copy and paste, or Google will automatically fill the blanks?