Regarding this forum

[Audio Advent]

And to be honest to search this place is a real nightmare...

I tend to use google for searching forums as forum search functions aren't particularly as good, especially some forum software where you can't seem to search for phrases, only getting results for each individual word in any context!

Maybe people don't know this google search method? You use the "site" function and a search looks like this:

Apples and pairs site:theartofsound.net

Note that there's no space between "site", ":" or the domain name.

That will search any page in the artofsound.net domain (including any subdomains, though for theartofsound.net there is only the "www" subdomain) for the words "apples", "and", and "pairs" .

Because it's Google, you can then use other boolean terms and characters. So to search for the whole phrase "Apple and Pairs" on AOS, you type:

"Apple and Pairs" site:theartofsound.net

or you want "apple" and "pairs" on the same page you can use:

apple NEAR pairs site:theartofsound.net

or

apple AND pairs site:theartofsound.net

etc etc ect

(sorry if this is teaching you to suck eggs with google!).

So there should never really be any problem searching any website or forum, just use google instead of the forum's own search facilities.

[rikardo1979]

I tend to use google for searching forums as forum search functions aren't particularly as good, especially some forum software where you can't seem to search for phrases, only getting results for each individual word in any context!

Maybe people don't know this google search method? You use the "site" function and a search looks like this:

Apples and pairs site:theartofsound.net

Note that there's no space between "site", ":" or the domain name.

That will search any page in the artofsound.net domain (including any subdomains, though for theartofsound.net there is only the "www" subdomain) for the words "apples", "and", and "pairs" .

Because it's Google, you can then use other boolean terms and characters. So to search for the whole phrase "Apple and Pairs" on AOS, you type:

"Apple and Pairs" site:theartofsound.net

or you want "apple" and "pairs" on the same page you can use:

apple NEAR pairs site:theartofsound.net

or

apple AND pairs site:theartofsound.net

etc etc ect

(sorry if this is teaching you to suck eggs with google!).

So there should never really be any problem searching any website or forum, just use google instead of the forum's own search facilities.

thank you for this short google search lesson maybe it going to help some others but for me this is nothing new



This was done for fun for me back in 2012 as I have learned nothing new(almost)

[jandl100]

I tend to use google for searching forums as forum search functions aren't particularly as good, especially some forum software where you can't seem to search for phrases, only getting results for each individual word in any context!

Maybe people don't know this google search method? You use the "site" function and a search looks like this:

Apples and pairs site:theartofsound.net

Note that there's no space between "site", ":" or the domain name.

That will search any page in the artofsound.net domain (including any subdomains, though for theartofsound.net there is only the "www" subdomain) for the words "apples", "and", and "pairs" .

Because it's Google, you can then use other boolean terms and characters. So to search for the whole phrase "Apple and Pairs" on AOS, you type:

"Apple and Pairs" site:theartofsound.net

or you want "apple" and "pairs" on the same page you can use:

apple NEAR pairs site:theartofsound.net

or

apple AND pairs site:theartofsound.net

etc etc ect

(sorry if this is teaching you to suck eggs with google!).

So there should never really be any problem searching any website or forum, just use google instead of the forum's own search facilities.

Wow - no - amazing. I really didn't know that!

[Marco]

Neither did I. Nice one, Sam

Marco.

[sq225917]

I don't need smoke blowing up my arse. Like any forum you learn who to trust and who's full of it. Do we really need a points system.

[rikardo1979]

I don't need smoke blowing up my arse. Like any forum you learn who to trust and who's full of it. Do we really need a points system.

you dont get my point here at all
is not about points and ego ... is about to keep the place tidy...so reduce posting stuff where you write "thanks" or anything like it ... where you can simply press Thanks or Like button instead

[jandl100]

a post saying thanks or "I agree" shows that there is backing/support for the original post.
A rep or award will probably not be seen or noticed by most people and so would not convey that information to the AOS community and would be largely wasted.

[rikardo1979]

a post saying thanks or "I agree" shows that there is backing/support for the original post.
A rep or award will probably not be seen or noticed by most people and so would not convey that information to the AOS community and would be largely wasted.

you can clearly see on 1st post how big the reputation is actually much better and more clear than reading 3 pages of replies ...

[rdpx]

you can clearly see on 1st post how big the reputation is actually much better and more clear than reading 3 pages of replies ...

Actually I rather like this idea.

Marco, can we have as system where we can draw big blue arrows onto the posts that we like please?

Thanks.

[jandl100]

you can clearly see on 1st post how big the reputation is actually much better and more clear than reading 3 pages of replies ...

Not really.

I would have to go back to the post to see if it had been awarded anything - usually I am looking for the next post.