Comments on: Tweak Your Daily Searching With These Browser Bookmarklets http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/tweak-your-daily-searching-with-these-browser-bookmarklets/ Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips Fri, 24 May 2013 05:19:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jeff http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/tweak-your-daily-searching-with-these-browser-bookmarklets/#comment-361632 Jeff Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:56:41 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=8269#comment-361632 Take a look at 1topix.com as well.

]]> By: ben nguyen http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/tweak-your-daily-searching-with-these-browser-bookmarklets/#comment-361549 ben nguyen Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:52:16 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=8269#comment-361549 @Ann Smarty, thanks, I have tried using google for this, but it’s not ideal. For one, if the forum requires registration, then google won’t find anything. And two, the search results that it does find, are not as accurate as the same search performed by using the forum’s own search engine. This may have to do with the fact that each forum is ‘powered’ by different software (phpBB, vBulletin, vBadvanced, Simple Machines Forum, MKPortal, IP.Board, FluxBB, etc.)

You would think that someone like google would have a simple aggregator that works specifically for forums… kind of like crazedlist.org or enginesdesktop.com.

There is a software package I found that comes CLOSE, called Web Forum Reader. Once you teach it how to log-on to a particular forum, it will automatically retrieve all the postings for offline viewing/searching. However, If you have quite a few forums, each with thousands of postings, its quite inefficient to download everything just to perform a single search.

]]> By: Ann Smarty http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/tweak-your-daily-searching-with-these-browser-bookmarklets/#comment-360805 Ann Smarty Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:17:53 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=8269#comment-360805 @Ben, good question. All what I can think of right now is to use Google site search for that.

[site:forum1.com OR site:forum2.com OR site:forum3.com search term]

If you search same forums often, you can create FireFox smart search for that – thus you will only have to change ‘search term’:

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/3-ways-to-customize-google-search-in-firefox/7752/

Hope, this helps…

]]> By: ben nguyen http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/tweak-your-daily-searching-with-these-browser-bookmarklets/#comment-360620 ben nguyen Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:04:31 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=8269#comment-360620 Anyone know of a way to search multiple forums at once?

I’d like to enter a search term once, but submitted to several forums. All the results from all the forums would then be combined and displayed. Anything like this exist?

]]> By: Jono http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/tweak-your-daily-searching-with-these-browser-bookmarklets/#comment-360585 Jono Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:49:50 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=8269#comment-360585 Super cool! Nice post.

]]> By: T.J. Mininday http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/tweak-your-daily-searching-with-these-browser-bookmarklets/#comment-360465 T.J. Mininday Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:52:59 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=8269#comment-360465 Wow, very cool. This would be a great add-on to the keyword searching that is already built-in.

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