We all know Google is the best search engine and I use some of the advanced features quite a lot. My favourite trick is the site: search were you specify a website site to search. I noted on the Wolves LUG mailing list about 15 minutes ago that site: searches don’t like specified subdirectories like http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/wolves/ which I would like so I could search the Wolves LUG mailing list for specific things, which I do a lot.

Aq kindly pointed out that you can do this with inurl: searches which I hadn’t noticed before, so while I can do site:mailman.lug.org.uk wolves

and still get a lot of non-Wolves LUG stuff, if I do inurl:mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/wolves/ [search term] then it will search the exact url for [search term]. I didn’t know this and as I told him, this has made my life complete 😀 Thanks Aq.

Now I must blush after telling a few people recently that they need to learn to search Google properly instead of asking obvious, easy to answer questions that are available at the end of a simple Google search. However, on that note, as I have previously ranted, if you learn to search Google, you will learn a lot more and also learn how to help yourself than if you just ask someone else for an easy answer.