Tips for the new 3reef Search Engine

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  1. Matt Rogers

    Matt Rogers Kingfish

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    I have given this more thought and may have a workaround.

    You can omit things with the minus sign.
    SO - if you are searching for a filter that is also in your sig, see if there is something else in your sig you can put a minus sign in front of to remove your posts from showing up in the search results.

    Example:

    Peredhil wants to search for 'Octopus BH-100F' but has this in his sig and is getting his posts in search results.


    Peredhil sig:


    Well he also has 'GroundProbe' in his sig, so he refines his search by searching for with these terms:

    'Octopus BH-100F -GroundProbe'

    Now his posts are removed from search results.



    More search tips may be found here:
    More search help : Google search basics - Web Search Help
     
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  3. steve wright

    steve wright Super Moderator

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    Ill have to try this out , smart system , brilliant IMO

    Steve
     
  4. ZachB

    ZachB Giant Squid

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    So I have to remove my own signature from search results each time I want to search for something I may have in my sig?

    What about everyone else's signatures? I have to compile a list I guess to remove them from the search results?

    Need some sort of tag to remove them from the results...
     
  5. Matt Rogers

    Matt Rogers Kingfish

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    In time I hope to add code to remove sigs from search results automatically... not on the top of my list... but it is there.

    EDIT-
    Start with normal search and refine from there...
     
    Last edited: Dec 25, 2009