Search Engine Changes

[amykhar]

You now have the ability to use boolean searches on the forums.

If you go to advanced search, and select boolean, you can do searches for stuff like Sara AND potato to find every post discussing Sara's strange obsession with potatos.

You can also search for pumpkin OR pecan to find any yummy pie recipies.

Finally, you could search for turkey NOT tofu to avoid any icky bean curd substitutes.

NOTE: Words have to be 4 or more letters long, but there is a trick. If you want to search for pie, try looking up pie*

The old way of searching still works. This just adds a bit more power to the search capabilites.

Amy

[taurusmoon]

I am NOT obsessed with potatos.

Just mildly intrigued.

[amykhar]

taurusmoon said

I am NOT obsessed with potatos.

Just mildly intrigued.

I thought that might get your attention.

[theworm[$]]

Yippie! thanks, Amy!!!
So - we need to write this AND that.
do we need to use quotes, or commas or anything.
Cool, cool, very cool.

And from my observations, Sara is unusually interested in potatoes!

[amykhar]

theworm said

Yippie! thanks, Amy!!!
So - we need to write this AND that.
do we need to use quotes, or commas or anything.
Cool, cool, very cool.

And from my observations, Sara is unusually interested in potatoes!

You may need to use quotes. No commas are needed. Also, you don't HAVE to use AND, OR, or NOT. You may still use the natural language search options as before.

[Sooner95]

this go along with the added Google search thing there or is that diferent?

[amykhar]

Sooner95 said

this go along with the added Google search thing there or is that diferent?

different.

[Sooner95]

ok, yea was looking around, did you have to actually embedd some java into the site for that to work? or just a simple link/box/submit good idea, was looking at it maybe for my site..

[amykhar]

Google provides you with the code, which is basic html.

[Sooner95]

gotcha, thx Amy..