SEARCHING this site effectively

brookefox · 22 May 2012, 18:16

I'm quite sure this is an old and tired subject and maybe one of the young-at-heart vet users can give me/us some tips on something obvious to help out in SEARCHING this site effectively.

I want info on 'plugin managers', I get results on 'plugins' and on 'managers'. I haven't been able to guess or discover the proper modifiers to use.

Any other tips? How about a sticky on effective site searching? Utterly unnecessary?

dsarchs · 22 May 2012, 18:41

I usually search directly from google using operators .

From your example, try something like:

"plugin managers" site;sketchucation.com

I'm not trying to be a smart-ass, but a lot of people don't know how to optimize a search.

brookefox · 22 May 2012, 19:06

So, go outside of this site to search this site.

From outside, your method worked fairly well, but still only returned two threads, in addition to this one. From inside, better results.

I don't think you're a smart ass for answering my question, that would be presumptuous on my part, unless you're admitting to same in a back-handed way... The 'operators' were the 'modifiers' I was explicitly looking for. I thought I had tried them but I had not; only single quotes, which were ignored.

Thank you.

pilou · 22 May 2012, 19:34

You have also inside the forum itself the advanced search