Found this useful

jostheim · June 2011

As a newbie on the egg I have been searching these forums a lot, as a web developer for a career I was yearning to use google to search instead of the default forum search engine. Luckily I can do that:

http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=014530981887270777020:koobyuzg5ca

Is a custom search engine that will display only results for this forum. I found it useful so wanted to post it in case others do as well.

bobbyb · June 2011

Thanks for the tip. Seems very useful.

Grillin & Chillin · June 2011

Awesome! Thanks for sharing and Welcome to The BGE Forum Family.

HungryMan · June 2011

Very good first post!

Mainegg · June 2011

now that is slick! I will book mark that for sure!. it found stuff I can never find on the forum in the search LOL eggcelent first post!! thanks a million for sharing ;0

Bear 007 · June 2011

Hey that's really cool, I just added it to my homepage.

Sundown · June 2011

Thanks! That's is one awesome search engine. :woohoo:

jimi1234 · June 2011

That's awesome.

I wonder if the new forum's search engine will be able to compare.

Capt Frank · June 2011

Thanks, that is very cool. I just added it to my Homepage :cheer: :cheer:

Austin Egghead · June 2011

thanks

egret · June 2011

I'll chime in with the rest......great site. Thank you for posting!

Austin Egghead · June 2011

suffered premature enter syndrome.

Way cool. Welcome to the group.

jostheim · June 2011

Re: the new forum search...

Google custom search engines can actually be embedded into the forum directly instead of being on a separate page. What I mean is that the "search forum" textbox above could easily do the kind of google search on the webpage I posted, all hosted within the forums pages.

I am not sure who controls the forum software, but linking the "search forum" box to a google custom search engine would not be a super-hard thing to do (I think, it depends on the forum software of course). I am a web developer by trade so if the forum owners need any help with this kind of stuff, I am happy to do what I can.

Glad it is helpful to people!

James

Gandolf · June 2011

Awesome! Thanks

Grandpas Grub · June 2011

Thanks.

Do you have this searching the subject line or in the body of the posts. I just did a few quick searches and it seems the google hit responds to the "In Reply to: ~then the search criteria~"

It will be interesting to play around with this a little.

Again, thanks.

GG