By JingJo on

Hello all,

Drupal has an excellent community that has helped me solve a couple of problems.

Being conscious of everyone's time I have always searched the site to find an answer before making a post. However most of my searches have been in vain. For example. I would like to know whether it is possible to link to all posts related to a taxonomy term, something like www.mysite.com/node/recipe but if I search the forum for "Node Name" or "Node by Name" I get a gazillion references to posts containing any one of the above terms. None of the search results are of use.

The really depressing part is that some kind soul wastes their valuable time to point me to the pre-existing answer to my problem.

So I search for "How do I search the forum" and the same result. Is there a "Google" of the Drupal site or some other technique that will get the results I expect? Perhaps someone knows a technique that returns one result which provides the perfect answer?

Sounds like a good case for Intelligent Design!

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budda
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I've been told to use Google to search drupal.org rather than the on-site search engine. It comes back with more useful results which the Drupal search never found for me.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site:drupal.org

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JingJo commented

Budda & Jozef,

Thx so much for your responses.

Jozef pointed me to a previous post entitled "Drupal Search should sort results by date", so I put this exact title into the Drupal search and it gave me results that were anything but what I searched for.

I didn't know the trick to make Google search a particular site. That's neat, so another BIG thx to u kidz

PS Farewell, because this is my last post. Google to the rescue!

PPS Excepting of course any posts that answer other people's questions :)

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jozef commented

see tips from dman
http://drupal.org/node/13771#comment-56317

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JingJo commented

Jozef & Budda,

Thx so much for your responses.

Jozef pointed me to a previous post entitled "Drupal Search should sort results by date", so I put this exact title into the Drupal search and it gave me results that were anything but what I searched for.

I didn't know the trick to make Google search a particular site. That's neat, so another BIG thx to u kidz

PS Farewell, because this is my last post. Google to the rescue!

PPS Excepting of course any posts that answer other people's questions :)

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tangibre commented

There is also a recent discussion on the future of Drupal's core search here http://drupal.org/node/33033 . It seems that it is going to be improved soon.

I have had the same frustrating experiences as you have, and think that using Google should not be necessary when we have such a wonderful thing as Drupal :-)