Search
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search.htm
Section
1:
Searching the BMW Airheads Motorcycle LIST
archives at Micapeak.com
Section 2: Searching the Snowbum website
©
Copyright, 2011, R. Fleischer
Section 1:
How to use the search function for the Airheads List archives, that is run by Micapeak.com:
There are several ways to get to the Micapeak.com
Airheads archives to search for a subject, poster, dates,
whatever.
The URL's for these are:
www.micapeak.com/archives/airheads/login.php
This requires log-in first.
www.micapeak.com/arcfind/airheads This is a DIRECT link
to micapeak's search page for Airheads.
Here is information that MAY
be needed, for the above:
FIRST, and
MOST IMPORTANT!...you can NOT depend on searching by DATE; nor
can you depend on the Archives listing of some particular date for a
message to be accurate.
I have no wish to get into this
deeply here as to why. Basically, for the curious, it was
a problem from before Micapeak.com had the LIST, and additional
problems from changing
from UNIX, ETC.
You can certainly try to search for a recently dated
article...perhaps back a number of years.
Do NOT trust dates
before the mid-nineties, inside the messages, nor trust in the date of the
archive!
If you do not find what you want on my website; and want to do
searching on the Airheads LIST archives (highly recommended
BEFORE you ask questions of me OR the LIST),
here is some information on how to do that.
Note that a LIST archives search may well
turn up multiple answers that you might not get from just
'asking' on LIST. That, and reducing LIST traffic
(you think your question is unique? Never seen before?
Probably been answered MANY times!).
For the archives, generally you need to sign in with your ID and password.
Try to keep your search terms and method rather simple.
For searching the archives:
Reverse Sort will bring a lot of messages, in
dated order if you use a message date search function.
Understand how the search engine works.
If you use multiple words in the search box, you will get
messages that have these words, and not likely words that have
just one or one-of-the-other words.
If you use quote marks around the search word
or words, you get exactly that word or words.
You can use the operators OR or NOT.
You can use the + operator.
Take the time to play around a bit with
searching the archives....it will be time well-spent!...you will
understand how to use the search function for the LIST archives,
and will appreciate that!
Section 2: What follows is a search page for ONLY Snowbum's website:
http://bmwmotorcycletech.info
YOU MUST be connected to the Internet, viewing THIS website search page, for this search page to function properly.
Be aware that this search engine is not 100% perfect, although it is VERY good! It works from information that Google has either cached (or finds via its robots which very regularly scan my entire site). It also searches in REAL TIME......and while theoretically some results are not necessarily in actual REAL TIME, that will probably not be the results you are likely to see. For technical reasons the search results you get will very likely be VERY up-to-date. If not, you should get a notification that it is a cached version.
Use this Search Page Engine, powered by Google,
when you can not find the items you are looking for, with your
own searching through my Technical Articles Index Page (or the
HomePage, which has some things not available via the Technical
Articles Index Page).
The
search engine works fast, and when it finishes it also returns
some advertising from Google, but that SHOULD BE at the bottom
(except the top of page advertising that is on ALL my website
pages).
Boolean operators will not necessarily work with this search
engine, same for quotation marks around things, etc. I
suggest you FIRST try NOT using operators.
Directions: Put a word or two for what you are searching for in the box just to the left of Search, into the white box area. Then click on Search. Look for results on the page that just about instantly appears!!...and be sure to scan all the way down, as the page results are sometimes mixed-up or otherwise 'funny'. You may get several pages of items, that you can look at. This search engine is quite powerful, and you will get a listing of all the pages in my website that your searching finds pertinent. Again, I recommend AGAINST using Boolean operators, unless you are pretty careful, and even then Boolean's can confuse, sometimes, the search engine. Narrow your request if you can, one word or just a few.
The Google sponsored links advertising SHOULD remain at the bottom; and only the normal Google advertising will be at the very top of this page; and the results will be just below after you click Search.
rev:
major revision, March, 2011, clean up the page, incorporate
archives information in detail, correct and clarify.
06/25/2011: code improvements.
09/25/2011: Final code improvements. Search engine
now fully optimized.
© Copyright, 2011, R. Fleischer