Searching older threads??

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a <i>trick to this?</i>, I`ve never had any luck trying. <BR>Please enlighten me to a method.<BR><BR>Dave

fatty

its a funny search engine...

being a novice i do a lot of searching and reading. i think the key is to think of unique words people will say within the thread and then sort through the excerpts, picking 'view thread' from there - and back and forth, next 10, next 10...etc.

when i wanted to see some pictures of nice installs - i searched, no surprise: 'looks great' . the key is not to be really specific, while pulling unique combinations. 'looks' or 'great' on their own don't yield many pictures at all, and 'great looks' unfortunately, yields almost none.

NOW, "great, looks" or "looks, great" - that will go into the hundreds and be less relevant because you'll get both threads with only 'great' or only 'looks'.
be prepared to do a lot of sifting.

but together... you see what i mean? "cold floor" would result in many different types of cold floor problems - and there would be a lot of sifting.
adding "cold floor boiler" amazingly, yields 0 results. why? because nobody says... "i have a cold floor boiler" they say, "my floor is cold", then someone else says, "maybe the boiler is undersized", or something. so "floor is cold" might be a good search.

so if you are going to use commas, you can be very specific, in the hopes of finding one thread that has a couple of the words in it. like searching "Biasi B4, Danfoss RET" would only give you 5 excerpts to sift. "biasi, b4, danfoss, ret" would give you more than the allowable 200.