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Unfortunately the search function on ET doesn't work, and so it can be extremely difficult to find examples which prove the point I was making.

You can always google a specifik site by adding it as a search term. For example a google search containing site:eurotrib.com will only give you results on ET.

Often this is superior to sites own search functions.

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Sun Nov 9th, 2008 at 08:13:23 PM EST
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Thanks for the tip.  Why don't we have this as a standard search button on Eurotrib?

Oops - I just googled my own name in Eurorib and it came up with 12k results.  No it can't be. It can't be!  I'm not that sad to have contributed 12k comments am I?

notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Mon Nov 10th, 2008 at 06:23:13 AM EST
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There are many, many, many duplicates. Try to think of all the way a single comment in a deep thread can be seen...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Mon Nov 10th, 2008 at 06:25:45 AM EST
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i.e. as a comment in a thread, on recent comments, on Frank's comments etc.???  How can a search function screen out such duplicates?

notes from no w here
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Mon Nov 10th, 2008 at 06:32:19 AM EST
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Or as a member of the thread provoked by the first comment, as a member of the thread provoked by the answer to the first comment, etc...

An inhouse search function wouldn't have such problem ; it could also be possible to use robot.txt to tell google to only index certain pages, and not others, but at the risk of losing some referrals, i.e. links that wouldn't go to those pages. I also have the impression that Scoop's URL have duplication (i.e. the same page can be accessed through various URLs), which is bad for a good ranking. Indeed, "numbered" URLs are bad from this point of view, too ; that's a secondary feature request for ET 2.0.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Mon Nov 10th, 2008 at 07:50:39 AM EST
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Linca has a good comment from the perspective of ET application. From the user perspective - solving the particular problem of finding a particular comment - there are more functions in the Google Advanced search, in particular timestamp (though it annoys me that it is so crude), more search terms and the option of not including finds that has a particular search term.

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
by A swedish kind of death on Mon Nov 10th, 2008 at 01:07:25 PM EST
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There is a site Google. See just under Search.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Nov 10th, 2008 at 02:34:50 PM EST
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I must be slow - but  can't find it

notes from no w here
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Tue Nov 11th, 2008 at 07:36:58 AM EST
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You might be looking for a box, it is a link.

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A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
by A swedish kind of death on Tue Nov 11th, 2008 at 10:21:32 AM EST
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I repeatedly forget where it is and have to look for it each time!

Ad astra per aspera
by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Tue Nov 11th, 2008 at 12:40:32 PM EST
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Thanks.  There so much stuff which is just part of the furniture and I never notice it.  I didn't even think to look there - I looked everywhere else!

notes from no w here
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Tue Nov 11th, 2008 at 02:49:06 PM EST
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