So, how would a fellow go about searching this blog?
I know this is old news, BUT the
most effective way to search any blog or website, look for and learn to use the "site specific" search option __IN YOUR FAVORITE__ normal regular web-searching engine.
NOT the site specific internal search.
What i describe below is the "manual entry" method. One can also bump around the buttons of most major search engines and find a ready-made window or somesuch for site specific searches.
This way you can use
all those special combinations and exclusions as you've learned them without being limited to site-internal searching parameters (which tend to vary and be fairly limited).
e.g. a minus sign directly in front of a search term (-term) means "NOT" such that the search will not return items with that include that search term. Little stuff like this really helps when title-only search is so difficult when titles are often poorly worded.
Maybe you'd like to search XYZ.com for "muzzleloader" but don't want to pull up posts with the plastic stuff in it. Search "site:XYZ.com muzzleloader -inline".
Or specifically to this thread, here's what i might enter into the search engines i use:
"site:contemporarymakers.blogspot.com "Smitty Johanisburgensteinbrennen" -bag"
That search would pull references to "Smitty Johanisburgensteinbrennen" only, not "Smitty" only, not "Johanisburgensteinbrennen" only, and not to any "bag".
Confused? the name will be searched as one unit because it is enclosed in quotations. "Bag" will be excluded because of minus mark.
HTH somefolks, I know we cover a wide array of online experience.
cheerios
