Using Google To Search The Forum

Did you know that you can use Google to search the Access Forum and get a more refined result?

I find that the search facility provided is excellent at searching for single words. However it does not provide the sophistication of tools like Google for searching for exact phrases.

To get this sophistication do this:

Open Googles advanced page: (http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search?hl=en)

The first section of this page is shaded blue, and contains the following items:

with all of the words
with the exact phrase
with at least one of the words
without the words

You can add words to varying degrees of sophistication for your search.

This is the important bit!
Just below this blue shaded area there is another section, go to the fifth item down in this section which is:"Domain" also make sure "Only" is selected. In the next text box (to the right of Only) place the domain you want to search in, this case you want to search the Access Forum so place in this box the following:

http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums

Now give it a try! Try searching for: "Date Selection" (without the Quotes)

If you search for this with the above Google method, you will get 90 results, If you search this result with the Forum search then you will get over 300 results.

Caveats:
Your search will only return items within the access-programmers site, and only items that are allowed to be indexed by Google.

Cheers Tony...