[Taxacom] Searching Taxacom archives

[gavin duley]

On 22 Jun 2007, at 15:29, Peter B. Phillipson wrote:

> Simpler and more efficient than that, you can go to the Taxacom index
> page http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/pipermail/taxacom/ and do a Google  
> search
> for your keywords on the Taxacom site if you have Google toolbar
> installed on your browser.
>
> Do this by entering the keywords in the Google search box, and  
> click on
> the strange crossed eyes and magnifying glass icon (if it is  
> present) or
> click on the drop-down arrowhead next to the google search icon and
> select 'current site' (various versions of Google toolbar vary  
> slightly,
> but they should all be capable of doing a 'current site' search).

You don't need the Google Toolbar to do this. All the Google Toolbar  
is doing here is appending site:[current-server] to the start of your  
search. Eg, for the example given it appends site:mailman.nhm.ku.edu  
giving us the search site:mailman.nhm.ku.edu storage cabinets insects.

This works for any site, of course. Eg, site:guardian.co.uk taxonomy  
finds all pages on sites in the Guardian's (UK newspaper) domain that  
mention taxonomy.

The search term site:[server or domain] does not have to be at the  
start of the search either, it can be anywhere in there. Eg,  
herbarium site:www.rbge.org.uk loan will find stuff about loans from  
RBG Edinburgh on the server www.rbge.org.uk.

Equally, you can restrict a search to a higher level domain, eg  
site:.org will only search .orgs, site:.org.uk will only  
search .org.uks, and site:cam.ac.uk will search all servers under the  
cam.ac.uk domain.

gavin,

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