A. The link to the Search Help Facility.

B. A step-by-step example of a productive archive search using adjacent words to narrow the focus.

Note: By no means will I get into the details of proximity, search logic etc. as you can all read and practice (something I encourage you to do) at your convenience.

A. URL (link) to the Webinator Search Help page:
http://www.thunderstone.com/webinator/help25.html

B. Example search:

Let's assume you want to find specific information about ttokkyo anavar. Don't just hit Search and type the words ttokkyo anavar. Many bros unknowingly do this and limit hits to the active threads only. Also, you are using default paramaters (read the Help file for a better understanding of this) which do not limit the hits (i.e. many pages are returned).

What you want to do is get accustomed to searching the archives with a more narrow query, for example:

1. Select Search
2. Select the radio button for Search the archived topics (thousands) discussion boards
3. Type "insert your phrase here" (Note the quotation marks, this locates adjacent words in a specific order).
4. Hit enter.

Notice the difference in the following examples:

If you search the archives on ttokkyo anavar right now (no quotation marks) you get the following:

1 through 10 of 75 matching documents

If you search the archives on "ttokkyo anavar" right now (with quotation marks) you get the following:

1 through 10 of 16 matching documents.

You went from 75 hits of any combination of the 2 words ttokkyo anavar to 16 hits of the specifc phrase ttokyo anavar by using the quotes. This demonstrates narrowing your search using adjacent words.

Another example:

"ttokkyo anavar" -mexico

You would receive:

1 through 10 of 10 matching documents

Because you further refined the search by using the '-'(minus). It means the answer should EXCLUDE references to that item (mexico in our case).

Hope this is somewhat helpful. For those that already know this stuff, sorry for the redundancy.

Keep this up for a little while so others can gain from it.

Later,

[This message has been edited by 1911 (edited January 30, 2001).]

For additional clarity:

#1 Click on my tagline where it says Search

#2 Click on Archives (or if your looking for something that happened in the last 2-3 days click active) use archives youll get more responses.

#3 Enter your phrase and READ them. Your question has already been asked 100's of times over most likely.

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Another fine board: Anabolic Fitness

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Heh heh. Thanks for the bumps my man, somebody out there will appreciate the tip.

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Originally posted by strengthmonster:
er, I am too lazy to read for my self so can someone tell me how to do a search without me having to read your explanation?

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