How Do I Use Free Republic's "Search" Function

11/19/01

[11th Earl of Mar]

I am trying to find an article written by a Freeper. How do I do a detailed search for articles posted by a particular Freeper? There used to be a link for information on deatiled searches. But I cannot find it anymore. Maybe I've gone blind.

[11th Earl of Mar]

I hate vanity posts.

[Rodney King]

If you can't find it in the FR search, use google. Go to www.google.com and type freerepublic 11th Earl of Mar.

While you are at it, download the google toolbar. It puts a little google search field in your toolbar, so you will never have to type www.google.com again. It's great.

[John Robinson]

Click user's name to view profile. Click "Find in Forum".

[John Robinson]

BTW, searches are kinda goofy right now. The software is still in transition to a new codebase. To facilitate the change, the structure of the database has been altered, leaving certain features (esp of search) temporarily broken.

[LarryLied]

Google searches may be narrowed down to Free Republic or any other specific web site by using the following format:

"What you are searching for"site:www.freerepublic.com

[TheOtherOne]

Have the Archives been out of reach for a while? I seem to try to look some old stuff up weekly and always get the message that it is not available.

Thanks as always, John.

[Focault's Pendulum]

How do I do a detailed search....

A compass, a map...and if your posting in the evening, a night vision scope

[ChemistCat]

I've figured it out, I think. 1. Do fifteen searches on every possible keyword you can think of. 2. Post your article. 3. Watch the snide comments about reposts fill up half of the thread of the discussion that follows.

[John Robinson]

Archives have been whacked for awhile; the search routine was too slow for the heavy load and caused a massive log jam under certain circumstances. I've been exploring new ways to search the half-million plus record database.

[11th Earl of Mar]

If I want to search articles posted by Jim Robinson or John Robinson, how can I do it witout going to Google?

And if I want to find a list of flagged posts[Christian_list, abortion_list, homeschool_list, etc] how do I do that? Thanks. No complaints here. Only questions.

[deport]

Bump List here

[Guna]

Hey Rodney,

What are you doing on this thread? You are supposed to be on the alcohol thread! Get back where you belong! :0)

[Rodney King]

Well, for some reason my mind is wandering and I have difficulty focusing.

[BufordP]

Try this:

Google Advanced Search on FreeRepublic.com