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Re: Tools to search this group, now that Google has screwed up their search? [message #67968 is a reply to message #67773]

Wed, 02 September 2009 13:32

Michael Galloy
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Ed Hyer wrote:
> This was discussed in a thread a few weeks back, but (haha) I can't
> find it.

Here is the discussion from a few weeks ago:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.idl-pvwave/browse_t hread/thread/2b6813c56b514ca0/c22fad23b15129f6?lnk=raot

> Google Groups, which I have been using to browse this group for years,
> has recently changed their search options to return only recent
> results. This makes the search basically useless for this group. There
> is an "advanced search" which allows you to search archives, but it's
> complicated and I am lazy. I mean, it's not clickable straight from
> the groups page, it requires you to type in the name of the group, and
> requires 5-6 extra clicks besides. Very un-Google-like.
>
> What other tools do people use to search this archive?

Personally, I use the custom Google search that's on my website (it's on
the second search bar on the right on michaelgalloy.com). This will
search the newsgroup, David's site, the IDL documentation, and a few
others.

> Is there a super-long string I can put in the Google search bar that
> will make it do the right thing, that I can just copy/paste?

If you use Firefox, it might be worth it to learn to use smart keywords
so that you can access that search from your URL bar (instead of having
to visit my page to make each search):

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Smart+keywords

I made a smart keyword "idl" to access that search, so now I can type
"idl histogram" on the URL bar to search for histogram across those sites.

Mike
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		Tools to search this group, now that Google has screwed up their search? By: MarioIncandenza on Wed, 02 September 2009 08:55
		Re: Tools to search this group, now that Google has screwed up their search? By: jameskuyper on Thu, 03 September 2009 03:01
		Re: Tools to search this group, now that Google has screwed up their search? By: MarioIncandenza on Wed, 02 September 2009 17:35
		Re: Tools to search this group, now that Google has screwed up their search? By: cgguido on Wed, 02 September 2009 14:47
		Re: Tools to search this group, now that Google has screwed up their search? By: Matt[2] on Wed, 02 September 2009 14:15
		Re: Tools to search this group, now that Google has screwed up their search? By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 02 September 2009 13:32

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