The search function

[Rockin Robbins]

Use the Google site search function. If you use the googlebar or Google Toolbar, just type your search in the search field and press the site search button. It works much better than any site's search fuction I've found.

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Got 8 posts linked to nearly 1000 replies using the terms "Artificial Intelligence"

Not sure what relationship "TMO" has with sub simming.

Problem with those "toolbars" is they come at a cost. Many are malware slowing down your computer and sometimes making your browser unresponsive. In November of last year, Google distributed a virus with their toolbar. The Acrobat "helper" toolbar kills IE. The Yahoo toolbar slows down IE.
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[Rockin Robbins]

Some toolbars come at a cost. Googlebar, a Firefox add-on is as good as Google's bar and has no problems. I wouldn't worry about Google's own toolbar either. Anything you download can have a virus, and most virus claims turn out to be false anyway. As long as your defenses are up, you are pretty impervious and any downloaded viruses are found before their host can ever be executed.

Unless you can make the argument that Google purposely included a virus with their toolbar (no laughing now!) I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Now some of the lesser known "toolbars" are nothing more than spyware vectors. Especially if a program claims to be anti-spyware or anti-virus and you haven't heard of it and it is not well-known to be harmless, it is suspect. "Accidentally" misspelled major programs qualify as well, seeing that we have an entire culture of script kiddies who revel in their inability to spell, punctuate or convey any sense in what they claim to say. They are particularly vulnerable, but they should be. It is only natural selection at work.

[Able72]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Some toolbars come at a cost. Googlebar, a Firefox add-on is as good as Google's bar and has no problems. I wouldn't worry about Google's own toolbar either. Anything you download can have a virus, and most virus claims turn out to be false anyway. As long as your defenses are up, you are pretty impervious and any downloaded viruses are found before their host can ever be executed.

Unless you can make the argument that Google purposely included a virus with their toolbar (no laughing now!) I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Now some of the lesser known "toolbars" are nothing more than spyware vectors. Especially if a program claims to be anti-spyware or anti-virus and you haven't heard of it and it is not well-known to be harmless, it is suspect. "Accidentally" misspelled major programs qualify as well, seeing that we have an entire culture of script kiddies who revel in their inability to spell, punctuate or convey any sense in what they claim to say. They are particularly vulnerable, but they should be. It is only natural selection at work.

But dood, my box is the RoXeRs

I'm 1337t/-\5t1k and you kant toch dis. :rotfl:

Gotta love the Script Kiddies

[skwasjer]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&r...MO&btnG=Search

Works for me

I always use google instead of forum search functions. The usual search function of boards like these can't match up to the algoritms google uses.

PS: I use IE7's builtin search box, with Google as default provider. Works like a charm...

[ReallyDedPoet]

Originally Posted by skwasjer

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&r...MO&btnG=Search

Works for me

I always use google instead of forum search functions. The usual search function of boards like these can't match up to the algoritms google uses.

PS: I use IE7's builtin search box, with Google as default provider. Works like a charm...

Nice post S


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[Khourieat]

Originally Posted by reallydedpoet

Nice post S


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Very nice! I just hit that link and one of the results was this very thread :rotfl:

Maybe the forum search should just point to the site search in google? Or offer both?

[Able72]

Originally Posted by skwasjer

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&r...MO&btnG=Search

Works for me

I always use google instead of forum search functions. The usual search function of boards like these can't match up to the algoritms google uses.

PS: I use IE7's builtin search box, with Google as default provider. Works like a charm...

Cool, very usefull. I didn't know Google would do that. Thanks.

[piersyf]

I'm going to throw in my 2c worth, being a noob to this forum. I think it is an OK search engine. Not great, but it does work. If I was allowed to make one change, I would have the results broken down into specific forum threads. I have used the search function a few times, had lots or returns, and found 2/3's of them to apply to SH3. If I could refine to SH4 it'd give closer, more accurate results.

If the system will already do that, I restate, I am a noob to the forum, and that facility (if it exists) is not obvious.

[aanker]

Originally Posted by Able72

Cool, very usefull. I didn't know Google would do that. Thanks.

Nowadays both IE7 and Mozilla Firefox have a search box built in and mine are configured to use Google. That's why I un-installed the Google Toolbar; toolbars take up too much real estate on my browser for my taste. I performed the same search just now in the Firefox box with the same results. Yup... pretty cool.

The forum search usually works fine for me but I do use the above method if it doesn't spit out any results.

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