How to Search Entire Bladeforums Site

[JGON]

Hi all,

Just thought I'd share a little trick I've been using to help me find stuff on here lately.

I find the search function on bladeforums to be less than ideal for finding anything. I post in many different forums, and sometimes I can't remember which forum I was posting in, and therefore I can't remember where I read something or which forum to search if I'm trying to find something I read previously. To my knowledge, there isn't a way to search the whole bladeforums site, but if I'm wrong, somebody please open my eyes to it!

Google, however, has a phenomenal search function, and it is capable of searching the entire bladeforums site for us. If you go to google and enter this in the search field with no spaces...

site:bladeforums.com

... you can search for whatever you want on the entire bladeforums site. IMO it's much easier than jumping from forum to forum searching using the bladeforums search criteria.

Here is an example...

http://tinyurl.com/3yuhhwf

This may seem basic to some, but it's helped me out recently so I figured I'd share for those of you who used to be frustrated with the bladeforums search like I was!

JGON

 

[Stelth]

Cool! Thanks for the tip

 

[FlyingKiwi]

I use this:
http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=011197018607028182644:qfobr3dlcra
It's the same deal, it just looks more simple to me. Bookmark it and you won't regret it.

 

[Karda]

To my knowledge, there isn't a way to search the whole bladeforums site, but if I'm wrong, somebody please open my eyes to it!

To use the search function to search the whole site all you need to do is input the item your searching for in the "search by keyword" box. select wether or not you want it to search entire posts or just titles only. Then you make sure you you have the "search all open forums" in the search in forum(s) input. You should now be searching the Entire site.