Hello my friends!!!
I have decided to share my new search engine with my fellow geekers!!
I have created a new search engine that will search PPCGEEKS and XDA developers websites ONLY.
This is a very helpful tool when you are looking for your PPC related answers!!
So instead of jumping back and fourth between sites or weeding through Googles results, you can get it from one spot!!.
This may also help cut down on duplicate threads.
More sites will be added soon.
I am open to adding any relevant sites to this search engine, so if you have any suggestions let me know.
You may bookmark the link below:
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=017695416373862181485:gvgyyqz72fk&hl=en
I got another one here:
XDA Google Custom Search
In this one, it will first search these four sites: xda-developers.com, ppcgeeks.com, msdn.com & pda4x.com. After that it will also list search result from other website, but concentrate on those four first.
You can just bookmark it for future use. Or if you want to create your own custom search engine, check here.
I have just done a search for "XFJP7" and a list came up with no reffrence to XFJP7.
The first result was: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=817703
I did a search in that thread for "XFJP7" and nothing was found.
If this site wants users to search the threads for answers then you need to fix your searching.....
You also need to make it easer to find threads users posted in......
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hi,
Well me search bought this up :http://www.google.com/cse?q=XFJP7&s...ub-2900107662879704:fs7umqefhnf&ie=ISO-8859-1 with quite a few results.
Not being sarcastic here, but did you ever think to broaden your search field a little to get more results. for example roms, slowdowns, fixs etc?
THe information is out there, you just need to have a little patience and know how to search!
Cheers.
Searching at present is limited to either forum category when you are sat in a particular phone forum or all forums/All phones, you can select your device in advanced search in all forums but the list is verrrry long and this is a pain. Would it not be better to have the all forum search to default into whatever phone forum you are sat in with a totally separate box for a full forum search, how often does anyone search all forums anyway?. That would allow you to Search in all categories in a phone forum at once, instead of having to go into each category and do separate search inGENERAL / QA/DEV etc. Often the answer you are looking for is in a ROM page and not in the QA or GENERAL.
I always thought the foums here at XDA were little counter-intuitive at times as far as navigation, but it never really mattered that much.... However, now I am stuck and cannot seem to do something rather simple... I dunno maybe I am tired.... but I thought I would ask so this doesn't become an obstacle.
I am trying to find all of my posts in this forum (HTC One-S). I didn't see an option, so I went to one of the sub-forums (like this one: One S General). Under advanced search, I entered my username in the correct place ("Find posts by..."). The result is 40 or so threads...but each thread has anywhere from 8 to 95 pages. I appreciate the helpful information to the left of each thread stating "you have X posts in this thread".... but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to bring up those posts.
[Also, I now see the widget icon next to Search All Forums on the Main Forum page... maybe I can search individual forums though that.]
But can someone tell me how to do a search which results in a page of only my posts????
Thanks in advance...!
On the advanced search page there is an option that lets you "show results as posts". It will show individual posts instead of threads.
Edit: nevermind they seem to have drastically simplified the advanced search and removed a lot of options. Try going to your profile page and the "Statistics" tab, then click "find all posts by syntropic".
Scroll to the top of the XDA Website where it says Welcome, "_______" <------ your name. Click on your name. Your profile should come up in the "About me" part of your profile. Scroll down toward the middle park of your profile and click on "Statistics". There should be a list that comes up. Click on "Find all posts by ______" (Your name)..
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This is not the place to ask this! Just use the statistics tab in your profile, it will show you all of your posts with a marker on which forum they were posted. You could of even PMed one of the moderation team, we are here to help.
People here love to use [Brackets] in their thread titles as described here. That's a great way to identify what the thread is about.
HOWEVER...
I have yet to find a way to search this site and limit my results based on those identifiers. I must be missing something obvious.
In other words, if I want to search a forum for an unroot guide, searching for "unroot guide" will return a gazillion results. I'd rather search for "[Guide] unroot". But the search engine discards the brackets.
Any help?
roachkv said:
People here love to use [Brackets] in their thread titles as described here. That's a great way to identify what the thread is about.
HOWEVER...
I have yet to find a way to search this site and limit my results based on those identifiers. I must be missing something obvious.
In other words, if I want to search a forum for an unroot guide, searching for "unroot guide" will return a gazillion results. I'd rather search for "[Guide] unroot". But the search engine discards the brackets.
Any help?
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If you want to search for a particular type of guide for a particular device is what you can do is navigate to that devices section, then go to the devices General section (Where most guides will be posted) or Development section (If the guides are particularly development related guides, I.E compiling a kernel from source, or building a ROM from source for a particular device), and then in the upper right hand corner is a "Search this forum" search box that you can then search for what your looking for. For example building on your example say I wanted to unroot my Nexus 10, I would navigate to the Nexus 10 General section and then using the "Search this forum" search box I would search "[GUIDE] Unroot Nexus 10" or similar search terms and I should be able to more easily find what I'm looking for. For other topics try narrowing your search range by visiting a particular forum section then using the forum specific search box. Another example might be say I wanted to learn more about ROM development I might navigate to the Android Chef Central forum and then using the "Search this forum" search "[GUIDE] Build your own ROM" or similar search time. Overall I would recommend trying to search in a particular forum section to get more accurate search results. Also you can try using Google search for example and including specific keywords like "xda unroot Nexus 10 guide" which would return a guide for unrooting the Nexus 10, while as you mentioned just searching "xda unroot guide" will return many results. Let me know if you still have questions.
Thanks for your reply!
shimp208 said:
using the "Search this forum" search box I would search "[GUIDE] Unroot Nexus 10"
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I've tried doing what you've suggested. My problem, however, that the brackets, [], get discarded in the search, such that the results return anything with "guide" (be it a title or message body search). This occurs whether I search from the site or from Google.
I was hoping to limit my searches, for instance, to only threads that specifically have [Guide] in the title, rather that every thread with "guide" in it.
roachkv said:
Thanks for your reply!
I've tried doing what you've suggested. My problem, however, that the brackets, [], get discarded in the search, such that the results return anything with "guide" (be it a title or message body search). This occurs whether I search from the site or from Google.
I was hoping to limit my searches, for instance, to only threads that specifically have [Guide] in the title, rather that every thread with "guide" in it.
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Another suggestion would be click on the search button in the upper right hand corner and then you should be presented with advanced search options. A couple options you could try is the search keywords section selecting the search titles only option, or the search by tag option searching for the guide tag.
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Use the search plug in for XDA built for Firefox or IE
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zelendel said:
Use the search plug in for XDA built for Firefox or IE
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this still discards the brackets
shimp208 said:
Another suggestion would be...advanced search options...search by tag option searching for the guide tag.
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It appears "tags" are not the same as the [notations]. In other words, if I go into a particular thread and do an advanced search putting "guide" or "[guide]" in the tags section, I will not get a list of all threads with "[guide]" in the title
roachkv said:
this still discards the brackets
It appears "tags" are not the same as the [notations]. In other words, if I go into a particular thread and do an advanced search putting "guide" or "[guide]" in the tags section, I will not get a list of all threads with "[guide]" in the title
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Did you try searching the thread title only in advanced search options for the "guide" keyword?
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shimp208 said:
Did you try searching the thread title only in advanced search options for the "guide" keyword?
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Yes
Anybody?
No search gurus with existential wisdom to spare?
roachkv said:
Anybody?
No search gurus with existential wisdom to spare?
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Don't use the XDA search engine. Use El Goog and in the search box put;-
site:forum.xda-developers.com [GUIDE]
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as well as the keywords you want.
Not perfect, but more likely to return results for you.