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How to search the board

Discussion in '348/355' started by randyleepublic, Mar 25, 2009.

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  1. randyleepublic

    randyleepublic Formula Junior

    Dec 2, 2007
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    Beautiful Reno
    Here's what I wrote in the 308 etc. forum. It's just as true for the Brotherhood. "348 Cab" for example...

    Let's say you are looking for information about a repair task for your Mondial t. If you use the provided search function you will be miserably disappointed. You enter the following: Mondial t flywheel noise. How it works, who knows, but you will be very lucky to find anything useful.

    Instead, go to Google. Click the link for "Advanced Search". At the bottom of the search form there is a field called: "Search within a site or domain:" Put ferrarichat.com in there. Then use the upper fields as common sense would dictate to find the links to posts that you are looking for.

    One tip: to find posts for the Mondial t, enter that within quotes as one of your search terms: "Mondial t". If you try that trick in the chat's search, it gives no results - "Search term not found". D'ohhh!

    Google, however finds 303 posts.

    I think that using Google's search you are doing Rob a big favor, as from what I hear, the site provided searches add a lot to his monthly hosting bill. True?
     
  2. saw1998

    saw1998 F1 Veteran

    Jun 8, 2008
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    Scott
    Nice tip! Thanks, Randy.
     
  3. NeuroBeaker

    NeuroBeaker Advising Moderator
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    Oct 1, 2008
    38,793
    Huntsville, AL., USA
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    Andrew
    Thank you for that, I've occasionally wondered if there was a better way to perform searches when some 'obvious' ones (can't remember what they are now) turned up no results for me. :)

    All the best,
    Andrew.
     
  4. AndyE430

    AndyE430 Rookie

    Jan 3, 2005
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    Andrew
    You can also add site:ferrarichat.com to the end of your normal Google search to just search here. It does the same thing as mentioned above.
     
  5. FandLcars

    FandLcars F1 Rookie

    Aug 6, 2006
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    Tempe, Az
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    Rick Schumm
    These are great tips! Works great, and a lot faster!! :)
     

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