[Greenbuilding] Searching archives

[Don Jennings]

Using "site:" is so helpful to narrow search results. Say you're looking for
info on r-value, google returns around 78 million hits. Add site:.gov to
your search to limit the results to government sites (U.S., of course). Only
about 8 million hits. Much more manageable ; >)

There might be other times when you want to only search for info found on
educational web sites. Try:

site:.edu

Take care,
Don

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Don Jennings <dfjennings at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good point. Seems like the nice listmod might add it to the greenbuilding
> info page, eh? Right there under the "To see the collection of prior
> postings to the list" part, we could say "To search prior postings…"
>
> http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_listserv.repp.org
>
> and/or at the top of the archives page (I'd argue for both locations since
> you never know how a user might get there : >)
>
> http://listserv.repp.org/pipermail/greenbuilding_listserv.repp.org/
>
>
> Take care,
> Don
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:30 AM, John E. Beeson <jbeeson at quinnevans.com>wrote:
>
>> Very nice, Don!  Thanks!  So, now, how do we search for this later on?
>> It's like a chicken and egg scenario.  Ha!
>>
>> --------------------------------
>> Google is your friend. To limit your search to a specific site, use the
>> site: operator. So, if I wanted to search the greenbuild archives for
>> "wall costs," I would type in:
>>
>> site:repp.org wall costs greenbuild
>>
>> Including the "greenbuild" usually prevents stuff from the strawbale
>> list which is also hosted on the same server. Let me know if all of
>> that's clear.
>>
>> Take care,
>> Don
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