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From: zebulon 1er
Subject: Feature request : a better Search module...
Date: 21 Feb 2021 15:25:05
Message: <web.6032c0a1923bc782ea5d10390@news.povray.org>
Hello,
I would like to post another feature request, but there is nothing to search
inside newsgroups before posting double requests.
At the moment, the Search link just searches (with Google sdearch :\) in the
entire web. Not really useful.
Thank you.


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From: Kenneth
Subject: Re: Feature request : a better Search module...
Date: 21 Feb 2021 19:40:00
Message: <web.6032fbf5fd251ec2d98418910@news.povray.org>
Except for a few inapropriate and silly advertisements that Google inserts as
the first few entries, I see a good list of POV-ray-only newsgroup links when I
use the Search bar (at least when using the search page's website portal.) But I
usually find what I am looking for within the first 2 pages of the search; I
have not looked past that, to see if there are links that have nothing to do
with POV-ray.


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From: Bald Eagle
Subject: Re: Feature request : a better Search module...
Date: 21 Feb 2021 20:25:01
Message: <web.6033079efd251ec21f9dae300@news.povray.org>
Or you could just use Google and:

your search terms site:povray.org

which will restrict all search results to povray.org

I'm sure people with greater familiarity might know the syntax for searching
only within a specific group, say pbi


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From: Mike Horvath
Subject: Re: Feature request : a better Search module...
Date: 22 Feb 2021 02:22:14
Message: <60335ba6$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/21/2021 3:20 PM, zebulon 1er wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to post another feature request, but there is nothing to search
> inside newsgroups before posting double requests.
> At the moment, the Search link just searches (with Google sdearch :\) in the
> entire web. Not really useful.
> Thank you.
> 
> 

The website admin should be able to restrict the search bar to just the 
povray.org domain with a little tweaking.


Mike


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From: zebulon 1er
Subject: Re: Feature request : a better Search module...
Date: 4 Mar 2021 05:25:00
Message: <web.6040b4c7fd251ec2ea5d10390@news.povray.org>
Mike Horvath <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>
> The website admin should be able to restrict the search bar to just the
> povray.org domain with a little tweaking.
>
>
> Mike

Hello,

Yep, maybe by embedding the "site:povray.org" terms, as suggested by Bald Eagle.

But yet -- and I could find it by myself. I'm brainless, sometimes... -- using
any web search that can use these terms, too. DuckDuckGo can do too, for
example.


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From: Thorsten
Subject: Re: Feature request : a better Search module...
Date: 4 Mar 2021 06:00:23
Message: <6040bdc7$1@news.povray.org>
On 04.03.2021 11:23, zebulon 1er wrote:
> Mike Horvath <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>>
>> The website admin should be able to restrict the search bar to just the
>> povray.org domain with a little tweaking.

Well, if Google wouldn't keep changing its search APIs that would be 
easy. The search site restriction used to work...

Thorsten


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