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| Searching LUGNET News All LUGNET news articles are full-text searchable. To look for something, select “News” at the top of a page, type your search terms into the box, and click the “Search” button. As an alternative, you can always try our customized Google Search page located here: http://www.lugnet.com/search/ Simple Searches Searching for simple phrases is straightforward. For example, to search for articles mentioning LEGO DUPLO Dinosaurs, you could enter
and that would show: http://news.lugnet.com/?q=lego+duplo+dinosaurs Things to note:
returns different matches than
(try it!). Excluding Words If you would like to find messages which contain do some word or words but do not contain some other word or words, you can prefix a word with a minus sign (-) to indicate exclusion of that word. For example,
looks for articles containing the word “lego” and “duplo” but not the word “toolo.” Requiring Words Similarly, if you would like to find only those messages which must include some word or words, you can prefix a word with a plus sign (+) to indicate manditory inclusion of that word. For example, whereas
might return articles containing only “darth” and not “maul,”
guarantees that the results contain “maul.” You could also put a plus in front of “darth” and a minus in front of “vader” if you wanted to find articles that mention Darth Maul but not Darth Vader.
Or, if you wanted to find articles mentioning Darth Vader but not Darth Maul, you could switch the minus and plus around:
Note: If you leave off the plusses and minuses, you’ll get results that contain either or both, with articles containing both being better matches than articles containing only one or the other. Searching for a Name To search for someone’s name or articles posted by a specific person, simply enter that person’s name in the search box. This will search for any articles containing the person’s name, but articles posted by that person will appear closer to the top of the results. (Note: there is currently no way to search specifically for articles posted by a specific person -- only to search for their name.) Time-Sensitive Searches Note: This is still subject to change. But for now, it works as described below. By default, all articles match your search terms based on word relevance, completely regardless of the time or age of the article. You can specify a desired “age” in days using a less-than sign (<) followed by a number. For example, if you search for
then it’ll show you things matching “lego studios” that were posted “about 10 days ago” (plus or minus 10 days -- with higher matches given to those that are closer to the 10-days-ago-point). Alternatively, if you search for
then it’ll show you things that were posted about 10 days ago, plus or minus 1 day (which might be nothing at all, but you can put in whatever numbers you like). If you want to go back farther, you can give days/months/years, for example
would look for (favor) things that were posted 15 days, 6 months, and 1 year ago. To limit the range to that time period, plus or minus one week, do
This is useful for digging up stuff that’s “about a week ago” or “about 3 months ago” or “oh, about 2 years ago” -- when it’s tough to remember an exact date. Other examples:
Searching for an Exact Phrase The LUGNET News search engine does not have precise, exact phrase mathing as some large-scale search engines often do with quote (”) characters. However, if you type a multiword phrase, LUGNET’s search engine will do its best to place articles containing that exact phrase above articles that contain only some of the words or words in a different order. Thus, you actually can search for exact phrases -- you just can’t exclude articles that don’t contain an exact phrase. |
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