Forum Question

[Lyndon]

Searching old posts on this new forum is fairly easy. But searching for them from 2018 and earlier seems a bit more time consuming. Is there an easier way to look up an older post that I did possibly in 2017 about my 1915?
Lyndon

[Scott_Conger]

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/82 ... 1538715180

[ryanf1023]

I’ll search for topics by googling “MTFCA field coil ring” or “MTFCA tire size” or whatever I want to look for. I usually get back pretty good results from Google, any other search engine is pretty poor.

[TRDxB2]

As Lydon suggested: Adding MTFCA before or even after you search words works on Google, Yahoo and Bing to give priority to matching search criteria there. But it isn't searching the Forum in particular its just another search word that is less common that the words MODEL and T
As a general rule using a minimal number of search words is best - adding MODEL T isn't a good idea because you get things that have keywords MODEL and other that have T (Tesla's Model T)

[Bill Robinson]

Did anyone notice that it only took 4 minutes for Scott to find -and post- the old thread that Lyndon was looking for? Jump on it Scott!

[jiminbartow]

Add “mtfca” to your keyword search as well as the 1915 Model T style featured in the post. You can also add your name or username to focus in on your particular posts. Jim Patrick

PS. Scott is a phenomenon.

[DLodge]

As a general rule using a minimal number of search words is best - adding MODEL T isn't a good idea because you get things that have keywords MODEL and other that have T (Tesla's Model T)

One thing to keep in mind with Google is the use of quotation marks. If you google
united states
you will get hits for both united and states by themselves and together. If you google
"united states"
you will only get hits with the two words together.

[Lyndon]

Scott's 4 minute mark is truly remarkable. And he found the exact post that I was wanting to look at. Thank you so much for that. And with all these searching tips to use, I have tried and tried to bring up this post on my own. Pretending I do not know the title, and inserting in what I thought might bring it up. I still have been unsuccessful. I realized I was using Bing as my search engine, and switched to Google. I did manage to bring up some of my older posts, but not the one I wanted. How Scott did this with such speed is amazing. I thank everyone for all the searching tips. I will keep trying to see if I can bring this up on my own. But it is a little frustrating knowing that it is out there and it can be done.
Thanks again
Lyndon

[TRDxB2]

Here is a list of Google search operators https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced ... operators/
such as AND, OR, -, *, ( ) haven't tried the other 37


An example of using some of them below

Notice the difference when -crankshaft was added

[Luke]

Just to note that some of us don't like to be tracked, have our data mined, or forced to participate in some sort of advertising campaign.

If you're one of these people you can use other search engines such as the double-duck (https://duckduckgo.com), or Startpage (https://www.startpage.com/) as an alternative to offerings from Alphabet and M$ etc.

There are many possible search parameters one may use with these tools, I won't go into them here as they're available online, but the double-duck at least (also available via http://ddg.gg) even has tools that google doesn't...