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− | + | You can use a Google to search the Homebrewtalk.com forum. | |
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+ | Entering the following term in the Google serach box: | ||
+ | CO2 site:www.homebrewtalk.com | ||
+ | will render the following page: | ||
+ | http://www.google.com/search?q=CO2+site%3Awww.homebrewtalk.com | ||
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+ | The Google search is a usefulalternative to teh native forum search for several reasons. | ||
+ | Primarily, the forum software search has an imposed restriction on terms of 3 characters or less or terms that are over 20 characters. | ||
+ | This restriction is a performance related measure. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Example: | ||
+ | Searching for carafoam-carapils-maltodextrine will yoed the following error. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms. | ||
+ | The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : carafoam-carapils-maltodextrine | ||
+ | |||
+ | Other common brewing terms that will yield a search error: | ||
+ | O2 | ||
+ | Keg | ||
+ | Dry Hop | ||
+ | "Hop Rod Rye" | ||
+ | |||
+ | Note that the inclusion of quotation marks does not matter in the forum search. |
Revision as of 19:27, 21 May 2007
You can use a Google to search the Homebrewtalk.com forum.
Entering the following term in the Google serach box: CO2 site:www.homebrewtalk.com will render the following page: http://www.google.com/search?q=CO2+site%3Awww.homebrewtalk.com
The Google search is a usefulalternative to teh native forum search for several reasons. Primarily, the forum software search has an imposed restriction on terms of 3 characters or less or terms that are over 20 characters. This restriction is a performance related measure.
Example: Searching for carafoam-carapils-maltodextrine will yoed the following error.
Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms. The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : carafoam-carapils-maltodextrine
Other common brewing terms that will yield a search error: O2 Keg Dry Hop "Hop Rod Rye"
Note that the inclusion of quotation marks does not matter in the forum search.