How to use google to search through an Eng-Tips forum

If you want to search a specific Eng-Tips forum you can either of the following 2 methods (I recommend method 1 for best results):

Method 1:

Use my custom search engine, created with Google Co-op.

You can find it here.

Instructions:
1. Enter your search terms
2. Hit search
3. Use the forum links (see picture) to limit your search to the specific forum
[img http://www.engit.nl/pics/googletip3.gif]

If you want a specific forum included please leave a message in this thread.


Method 2:

- find the forum number (see red box in picture)
[img http://www.engit.nl/pics/googletip.gif]


- open a Google window

- enter in the box: "site:.eng-tips.com inurl:559" and your keywords (see picture)

[img http://www.engit.nl/pics/googletip2.gif]


- Replace the 559 with your forum number

- Enter your keywords, it doesn't matter if you include them before or after "site:" and "inurl:"

** note, it is possible to get results outside the forum, you actually limit your search to results containing the forum number in the url, but it works well enough.