Searching Batboards for information

[escomm]

There have been a number of posts lately with questions asked that have been previously asked and answered. With over 150,000 posts in the main forums, plus an additional 50,000+ in the subforums, there's a good chance your question may have already been answered.

There are two good ways of searching.

First, you can use the board's internal search function.

Second, you can use Google's advanced search. Enter your search keywords in the appropriate field, and then be sure to specify batboard.batlabs.com in the "Search within a site or domain" field a bit lower down the page. This will limit your search to the content here on batboards that Google has spidered (which is just about everything since Google respiders the boards a few times per day)

I highly recommend using Google instead, as their search algorithm is much better suited to parsing the massive database here than PHPBB's search, and it will also conserve board resources by putting the load on Google's servers instead of the one running the boards.

[kcbooboo]

Even simpler, use the plain Google search window, but append "site:batboard.batlabs.com" (without the quotes) to the end of the keywords you're looking for. This will work with any site you want to limit your search to.

At least the Google search won't throw away important keywords, like SPECTRA.

Bob M.

[MT2000 man]

Very well said !

[akardam]

Good info, guys. I've appended it to the announcement about searching. Thanks!