Help doing Google site searches.

[_Fence Sitter]

I know some of you are very good at searching this and other sites for content using Google. I fail consistently when I am looking for specific content on this site. I have long since given up using the search function here also.

I am looking for step by step instructions on how to find a specific post made here. For example, a few years back I wrote a post explaining what I think happened in the event we now refer to as the First Vision.

If anyone could find that using Google site search and would be willing to give me the actual text they typed into Google to find it, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[_Maksutov]

Was it in this thread?

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=42159&start=63

I entered the following as a Google search:

mormondiscussions.com fencesitter "first vision"

[_Fence Sitter]

Thanks Mak.

That is not the specific one I am looking for but that was one about the first vision in which I participated.

I think the one I am looking for was one I started, but it has been so long I am not sure.

[_Fence Sitter]

I got a PM from an old friend here who suggested this for a search.

"Fence Sitter" "First Vision" site:mormondiscussions.com

and the third result was the one I was looking for.

http://mormondiscussions.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=22073

I think part of my problem was using an ampersand '&' between my screen name and first vision, when I should have been using quotation marks so that both terms appeared in every return. I am not very good with boolean operators.

[Guest]

You started this one:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=47484&start=21&hilit=F%2Arst+Vi%2Aion

Someone trying to answer a question about the first vision is going to run into the fact there are multiple versions and how it was not even well know until after the move west. The same sort of problem will happen with researching the Book of Abraham, polygamy, or if one starts tracking down sources used to justify the succession to current leadership.

ETA just saw you found what you wanted.

Just for future reference, searching here with asterisks helps , i found the above by putting "F*rst Vi*sion" into search box, your screen name in author box.

The search feature here only seems to go back a year, though, so it's not too helpful, and for some reason almost all words seem to come back as too generic for a search unless you add the asterisk wildcard.

[_Fence Sitter]

Thanks Lemmie.

[_Dr. Shades]

I think part of my problem was using an ampersand '&' between my screen name and first vision, when I should have been using quotation marks so that both terms appeared in every return. I am not very good with boolean operators.

Never use an ampersand in a search field.

[_moksha]

When I did a psychic google search as to where Anthony Bourdain has gone, it came back with "Parts Unknown".

[_subgenius]

I know some of you are very good at searching this and other sites for content using Google. I fail consistently when I am looking for specific content on this site. I have long since given up using the search function here also.

I am looking for step by step instructions on how to find a specific post made here. For example, a few years back I wrote a post explaining what I think happened in the event we now refer to as the First Vision.

If anyone could find that using Google site search and would be willing to give me the actual text they typed into Google to find it, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks

when searching use the following after your keywords:
"site:mormondiscussions.com" (no quotes, and no http: etc).
The "site:" with whatever domain you are searching will search only that location.
good luck!