Searching the RFF forums

[HuubL]

There was another complaint in a recent thread about RFF's lousy Search function. I've seen a similar approach a couple of months ago (forgot who's it was), that made use of a javascript on website, but I made a Javascript search function that instructs Google to search the RFF forms using a bookmark in your own browser. It's fast as.. ehh.. Google and you can use combinations of search terms.

You can install it as a Bookmark. Name: "Search RFF". For link location use:

javascript:X=escape(getSelection());if(!X)%7Bvoid(X=prompt('Search%20RFF%20for',''))%7D;if(X!=null)location.href='http://www.google.com/search?rls=en-us&q='+escape(X)+'%20site:rangefinderforum.com&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8'

Type the above text exactly as above. Take care not to use spaces and type everything on one line. Then save the bookmark. Clicking the bookmark will open a message box in which you can input your search terms. "OK" will send the terms to Google which will be opened with links to the RFF threads corresponding to your search terms.

Good luck!

 

[pfoto]

You can also just use straight Google. Cut'n'paste this into the Google entry field:

site:rangefinderforum.com search rff forums

and you should get this thread very near the top (it's a couple hours old already).

If you use site:domainname.com keyword1 keyword2 with any site you will get a fast & accurate search.

 

[gdi]

Here is a link the search page DigitalIntrigue (Robert) was kind enough to put up...

http://www.rangefinderrestorations.com/photo_posts/searchRFF.html

 

[pfoto]

Yep. What Robert does is as I posted above except that he places the search terms before the site:rangefinderforum.com string. Works just as well.

 

[HuubL]

Thanks guys,
Yes it was Robert's. Essentially the same as mine, but he put the message box on his webpage. Mine is put in your own browser.

BTW, I messed up with the code above. It doesn't work if you copy and paste it. Just as I said, avoid spaces in the javatext (The editor used here breaks up the one-line entry I pasted from my bookmark into parts and introduces the spaces between them)

This should work better:

javascript:X=escape(getSelection());if(!X)%7Bvoid(X=prompt('Search%20RFF%20for',''))%7D;if(X!=null)location.href='http://www.google.com/search?rls=en-us&q='+escape(X)+'%20site:rangefinderforum.com&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8'

cheers,
Huub

EDIT: Well forget the copy and paste. That what is displayed in the thread is different from the text I put in. The resulting message contains extra spaces that are apparently introduced automatically. There are spaces between "void(" and "X=prompt" and between "&ie=" and "UTF". So, make sure you delete the spaces manually before saving the bookmark.

 

[gdi]

Click this link and bookmark it (by Digitalintrigue):

http://www.rangefinderrestorations.com/photo_posts/searchRFF.html

 

[mirrored]

Click this link and bookmark it (by Digitalintrigue):

http://www.rangefinderrestorations.com/photo_posts/searchRFF.html

Thank you. But it doesn't help for successful keyword finding?

 

[gdi]

It allows you to search for short terms - like M3 - that the forum software doesn't like, and you don't have to wait 30 seconds between searches.

 

[splitimageview]

Click this link and bookmark it (by Digitalintrigue):

http://www.rangefinderrestorations.com/photo_posts/searchRFF.html

Click the link, then drag the "search RFF" to your toolbar. (Safari users)

Firefox users, right click then save to Bookmarks toolbar.

 

[back alley]

cool!

that was easy.