The problem with most of the forum software out there is that, for performance reasons, there is a minimum word length for search terms; for most this is 4 characters or more. This limitation is fine for most purposes but technology tends to be full of TLA's which makes searching a pain. An example recently; trying to help a user on the Movable Type forums I needed to look up previous posts about 403 errors. Searching within the forum for 403 returned no hits.
One trick is not to use the forums built in search facilities, but use Google instead. Most people that use Google do not know that you can limit your searches to a specific site by the following:
For more information on this, and other useful search terms see: http://www.google.com/help/operators.html
One trick is not to use the forums built in search facilities, but use Google instead. Most people that use Google do not know that you can limit your searches to a specific site by the following:
site:http://forums.sixapart.com <search>this will find all occurrences of <search> on the site specified, for example:
site:http://forums.sixapart.com 403helped me find all the posts about 403 errors in the forums.
For more information on this, and other useful search terms see: http://www.google.com/help/operators.html
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