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Aitch

Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6815 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK
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Posted: Fri 30 May 2008, 14:59 Post subject:
SEARCHING; Ways to search the forum for problems/solutions Subject description: Add yours, too |
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PUPPY LINUX May 08
Ways to search this forum for problems/solutions
(Or anything else you might need to search for )
1st:
[and probably least liked, sorry JohnM] the Search button at the top of the forum pages
You can set parameters/Options to make this targeted, for example to, Search post title only, or Search HOW TO (Solutions)
2nd:
The most popular & often recommended, the wellminded Search
3rd:
Probably the least known about, but one I find very useful klu9's Search
Which you'll need a good browser/video for, as it uses Truvideo & Blinxvideo as well as many Puppy listings
4th:
The most recent addition, not yet in people's minds, but useful nonetheless, is the Community Website Search
Visit the Community Website Here
Apart from, of course, your own favourite well known search engine
Please include yours below
Thanks
TIP: If you right click any of these highlightable links, you can open in new tab; very handy!
Happy searching - You may bookmark any/all of these links
A full searchable database, with many search term options, will be included in the near future, I am reliably informed
[unless you'd like to try your hand]
Aitch
Edit: Added right click Tip
Edit: This list is constantly being amended so check back every now and then, thanks!
Last edited by Aitch on Wed 01 Sep 2010, 05:10; edited 3 times in total
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 6781 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Posted: Fri 30 May 2008, 20:06 Post subject:
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Tips:
The actual forum search doesn't search very old posts, so you have to use one of the other searches.
The actual forum search doesn't search for words with less than 4 characters, so you have to add an * if you need to search for 3 letter words.
BUT
The actual forum search is still valuable as it is the only one that can display results in a logical order (e.g. by date), and that has advanced search abilities like searching by author - or am I wrong about this?
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Pizzasgood

Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 6266 Location: Knoxville, TN, USA
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Posted: Fri 30 May 2008, 22:52 Post subject:
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Searching by author is very handy sometimes.
Additionally, you can click on somebody's profile and then you will see a link that will show a list of every post that user has made. Handy when you know who made a recent post but don't remember where.
If you go to the forum index, at the top right there is a link which will show all of your own posts. You can also access this by clicking your profile link from a post, as above. It doesn't work from the profile link at the top of the forum though.
If you want to give somebody the link to a post you found by the forum search, but don't want half the words in orange, you can edit the URL. there will be a question mark followed by some text, then an ampersand and more text. Remove everything between the question mark up to and including the ampersand. Like this:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1746960937&t=29754
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29754
If you want give a link to a specific post within a thread, right-click the little white or orange icon at the left of the "header" of the post. Go to "copy link location". Now middle-click where you want the link pasted. For these, if you want to remove the orange you need to remove everything from and including the ampersand to just before the hash sign, like so:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=202493&search_id=1746960937#202493
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=202493#202493
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erikson

Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 735 Location: Ghent, Belgium
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Posted: Sat 31 May 2008, 05:50 Post subject:
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Not Puppy-specific but handy nevertheless:
Linux documentation Search at die.net
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r__hughes
Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 347 Location: Canada
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Posted: Sun 01 Jun 2008, 11:49 Post subject:
Manual searches through dozens of pages Subject description: How to manually search BIG BIG multi-page topics |
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I like to trace the histoy of some topics and sometimes find they go back dozens of pages in a multi-page topic.
So here is some useful advice I got many moons ago for navigating the history of multi page topics (eg this Beginner's Help) back through dozens (if not hundreds) of pages.
Look for the direct page access area near the top right of the topic page - something like
Quote: | Goto page: 1, 2, 3, ..., 273, 274, 275 Next |
This lets you quickly select the first 3 and the last 3 pages then SLOWLY get to any other.
But how do you quickly get to page 100?
The answer is to hover the cursor over the page 2 selection to get the absolute address of page 2 (something like the following)
Quote: | http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=2&ppage=30&sort=lastpost&order=DESC&start=30 |
then check the page 3 entry which might be something like
Quote: | http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=2&ppage=30&sort=lastpost&order=DESC&start=60 |
This gives a quick rule of thumb that the start addresses increase by about 30/page
so a good guestimate for page 100 would be around 3000
Now select page 2 to get the page 2 address in the browser window at the top of the browser page and edit it to
Quote: | http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=2&ppage=30&sort=lastpost&order=DESC&start=3000 |
This should get you to around page 100
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Aitch

Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6815 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK
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Posted: Mon 02 Jun 2008, 14:07 Post subject:
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As an additional thought, & as a result of a recent post,
Tips for 'How To Search' from google; including using filtering/advanced search techniques/how to interpret results, etc
Here
With any luck someone will find something really useful
Yay!
Gold, I found Gold
oops, sorry, wrong forum
Aitch
Edit: Metasearches
http://clusty.com/
http://www.ithaki.net/ [plugin for mozilla]
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ZAPPDOG

Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 44 Location: CALGARY CANADA
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Posted: Mon 02 Jun 2008, 15:48 Post subject:
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A good general use search engine is
http://www.metacrawler.com/
it uses Google, Yahoo, MSN Search and Ask.
An all in one.
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Aitch

Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6815 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK
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Posted: Thu 05 Jun 2008, 13:11 Post subject:
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And if all the above isn't enough for you;
Master the google search, like a god, & save time
Aitch
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puppyluvr

Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 3468 Location: Chickasha Oklahoma
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Posted: Mon 04 Aug 2008, 01:19 Post subject:
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Yea, even an idiot like George W uses "the Google on the Internets"
(LOL, just a joke, you NSA guys know that right??)
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shroomy_bee

Joined: 28 Jun 2008 Posts: 666
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Posted: Fri 12 Sep 2008, 15:23 Post subject:
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There may be some issues with the forums search - I looked for a topic with 'firewall' in the title that I know exists (since found it again cause I remembered who wrote it and checked their past posts), but the search wouldn't return it in three different ways of asking (all forums, past 3 months; all forums + keyword; beginners (the forum it is in) + keyword in title).
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106498
Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 250 Location: NZ
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Posted: Fri 07 Nov 2008, 03:39 Post subject:
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I second Aitch!
To get you started, heres my most used forum search technique.
In google (or search engine of choice), type
Code: | site:murga-linux.com my search |
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canbyte

Joined: 10 Jan 2009 Posts: 266 Location: Hamilton, Canada
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Posted: Wed 25 Mar 2009, 00:06 Post subject:
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Good topic Aitch. Should be copied / edited to the wiki & manual
Here is the google advanced search
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:murga-linux.com&num=100&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all
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Aitch

Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6815 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK
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Posted: Fri 10 Apr 2009, 17:34 Post subject:
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Want music downloads?
Or educational research material?
Here's a creative example of google searching
http://www.wimp.com/goodinfo/
different version
http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/Me_on_FT_com_and_Cnet_194_2007.php
Enjoy
Aitch
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Aitch

Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6815 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK
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Posted: Sat 18 Apr 2009, 17:58 Post subject:
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Google Insights
courtesy; Master_wrong, thanks
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#
example search for a well-known distros global distribution
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=puppy%20linux%20download&cmpt=q
shocked - I was... try changing the search terms
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=puppy%20linux%20distro%2Cpuppy%20linux%20installer%2Cpuppy%20linux%20download&cmpt=q
so there you have it
Aitch
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Master_wrong
Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 456
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Posted: Sat 18 Apr 2009, 20:00 Post subject:
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cool, and that would confirm our better position at distrowatch...
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