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April 1, 2008 at 11:47 pm #586667

GenHillOne
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I’m almost afraid to ask because I think I just might be having a mis-fire of the brain! I’m trying to find RR on a particular topic and can’t figure out how to search the forums. Am I missing something? I don’t want to ask for a recommendation on a service that I know has already been addressed on at least two occasions.

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April 1, 2008 at 11:53 pm #620719

Anonymous
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If you still need help, tell us what it was related to and about how long ago, I bet someone will find it and get you the link.

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April 2, 2008 at 3:57 am #620720

JoB
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where is janS when we need her?

She seems able to find anything so she must use some form of search.

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April 2, 2008 at 4:52 am #620721

WSB
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The forums are crawled by Google but our site search currently only searches the news content. Our technical consultant has offered some solutions for that and I hope to implement one soon since obviously site search should be whole-site search. In the short run, you might try just regular ol’ Google – for example, if your topic is a housecleaner, I just went to google.com and put in wsb forum housecleaner – clicking the “more results from westseattleblog.com” link under the second result brought up several more including an actual forum post about a housecleaner recommendation. Sorry it’s such a hassle, we will do our best to fix it — TR

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April 2, 2008 at 2:35 pm #620722

JoB
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TR

that solution helps me a lot.

thanks

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April 2, 2008 at 2:38 pm #620723

hopey
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Here, this should make it a lot easier. Try plugging this search into google:

site:westseattleblog.com/blog/forum house cleaner

or

site:westseattleblog.com/blog/forum repair

If you want to search the entire site, blog articles and the forum, just drop the “/forum” from the search.

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April 2, 2008 at 2:51 pm #620724

GenHillOne
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Thanks guys; that works – especially with the “more results” route. I just didn’t want to post a redundant request!

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April 10, 2008 at 12:06 am #620725

squareeyes
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Argh! I had to search to find this thread to figure out how to search for a topic. I’d be most grateful if hopey’s wonderful quick instruction on how to search via google be added to the front of the forum page if it’s not too much trouble.

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