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From: Tibor Berenyi
Hi ppl,
I found this little treasure while searching the archives. Its for ppl who find the search engine on this site a wee bit frustrating - as I did.
"Hi Mike,
I fortuituously found a way of searching the archives, and for that matter any part of this forum. I was using a search engine (Google in this occurrence) and came across an reference to a post in this forum. So I tried Defence Housing and I also tried "off the plan", and it gave me the posts where the exact phrase appeared. With Google I input this: "off the plan" site:www.somersoft.com.au
Hope this helps
Cheers Jacques
Hi Jacques,
Take a bow! Finally, someone with some lateral thinking has found a way to overcome the limitations of the Archives search engine. It's called Google of all things. It can search phrases. Whoopee!!! Find it at: http://www.timeline.com.au/search/google.html
Domain Restrict Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meaning to Google. One such word for Google is the "site:" operator. To search a specific domain or site, use the "site:sampledomain.com" syntax in the Google search box. For example, to find off the plan information on Somersoft's site, enter: "off the plan" site:somersoft.com.au
Thanks, Jacques, you made my day. Mike"
Thanks Jacques ! Yay.
Hi ppl,
I found this little treasure while searching the archives. Its for ppl who find the search engine on this site a wee bit frustrating - as I did.
"Hi Mike,
I fortuituously found a way of searching the archives, and for that matter any part of this forum. I was using a search engine (Google in this occurrence) and came across an reference to a post in this forum. So I tried Defence Housing and I also tried "off the plan", and it gave me the posts where the exact phrase appeared. With Google I input this: "off the plan" site:www.somersoft.com.au
Hope this helps
Cheers Jacques
Hi Jacques,
Take a bow! Finally, someone with some lateral thinking has found a way to overcome the limitations of the Archives search engine. It's called Google of all things. It can search phrases. Whoopee!!! Find it at: http://www.timeline.com.au/search/google.html
Domain Restrict Some words, when followed by a colon, have special meaning to Google. One such word for Google is the "site:" operator. To search a specific domain or site, use the "site:sampledomain.com" syntax in the Google search box. For example, to find off the plan information on Somersoft's site, enter: "off the plan" site:somersoft.com.au
Thanks, Jacques, you made my day. Mike"
Thanks Jacques ! Yay.
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