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withnail
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul, South Korea.
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 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:17 am Post subject: Dave's ESL Cafe Search Tool |
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I have read many posts about this and I agree. It would be great to have a good search tool. I'm not a techie but is this so hard to achieve? (come on kprrok!)
Perhaps if we get 1000s of comments on this thread it would act like a kind of petition. I understand the frustration of Dave veterans who see threads coming up from newbies (like this one) which they've commented on before with their expertise. It must be irritating.
Let's get a critical mass! |
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Chet Wautlands
Joined: 11 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:37 am Post subject: |
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| There was already a thread about this. Use the search function. |
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withnail
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:01 am Post subject: |
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hahahaha! i love sarcasm! you cheeky burger!
yep. problem is, i keep getting a blank page with the message "done" in the progress indicator as always. quod erat demonstrandum, i think. |
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waseige1
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:17 am Post subject: Using google instead.... |
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I do this for most sites as Google is usually far better.
Go to google.
Click on advanced search.
Type in what you want to find on the site.
Tab down a few boxes and there is a "site" box.
Type in eslcafe.com.
If you only want to search korean forums, type in eslcafe.com/korea.
Works great for just about any site.
OR
From the main google page you can also type (for example):
"wall street" site:eslcafe.com/korea
It works the same either way.
Like I said, I use this on many sites, not just for eslcafe.com |
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oskinny1
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withnail
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:13 am Post subject: |
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| brilliant! |
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Mandinga
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:25 am Post subject: |
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| that is great news |
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The_Source
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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Pretty cool, thanks for the link. Although it does give results for all of Dave's forum. It would be cool to have a google search limited to the Korean forums. |
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waseige1
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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| You can get results from only the korea forum. See my post earlier on how to do it from google. |
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Korussian
Joined: 15 Sep 2007
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R. S. Refugee
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Shangra La, ROK
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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| The_Source wrote: |
Pretty cool, thanks for the link. Although it does give results for all of Dave's forum. It would be cool to have a google search limited to the Korean forums. |
Many posters on this thread have already addressed the search engine question. The answer is Google. It works on all sites everywhere. No customization required. If you just want to search the Korea forums, then just type in your search term -- I used "Obama" in the example below -- followed by the specific site (example shown below). Then you will see all the references to that search term in the Korea forum (1270 for "Obama").
Just cut and paste this into the Google search engine to see those 1270 results.
Obama site:http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea
I (and probably many others) have posted the solution to this frequent complaint several times on this forum, but, of course, like most all such postings it drops out of site. If the mods would make a sticky for this search engine question, it would probably help.
Cheers. |
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Korussian
Joined: 15 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| R. S. Refugee wrote: |
I (and probably many others) have posted the solution to this frequent complaint several times on this forum, but, of course, like most all such postings it drops out of site. If the mods would make a sticky for this search engine question, it would probably help.
Cheers. |
You're absolutely right. That is a good solution, with no custom search engine required.
It's a Catch-22: the information about how to search the site well is continually lost because those who need it don't know how to search the site well. |
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withnail
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:25 am Post subject: |
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| bump. |
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red_devil
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:15 am Post subject: |
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| Or replace that ugly-ass Dave's banner at the top with a space for the Google search field... |
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Tommy
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| Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| I think there's a good reason why the search function on Dave's doesn't work. |
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