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Originally Posted by electile disfunction
(BTW: Google no longer seems to search for "phrases in quotation marks" any more, either.  ) |
It does still do that. I've just used it to search for "phrases in quotation marks" and yours is the only post in VEF containing that phrase. What Google doesn't do any more is use the +operator to force searching for an exact word - you have to put that word in quotes to force it. There's an explanation
here of how the operators function now.
Another thing Google doesn't do of course is search parts of the forum that are only accessible to members.
On another note, down the bottom of the screen is a link marked Archive.
This takes you to a text only version of the forum (and one slightly behind the times). Longer threads are compressed onto a smaller number of pages, and the same is true of the forums: at this moment, Modern Movies has 4916 posts, displayed over 85 pages in the full version of the forum - but only 7 in the archive. So if you aren't sure how something is expressed, instead of searching for it, you could browse for it very much more quickly. Alternately, given you can get a much greater proportion of a thread or forum listing on a single page, you could just use your browser's text search facility.