Search opensuse forum with google

There is a lot of useful information available in this forum and in the internet related with OpenSUSE. The main stop for must of the beginners like me is looking at the topics being discuss and the forum search option. Because I had spent a good amount of time looking, and finding, answers to my problem/question, I have come out with an easy way to search the forum without being in it. There are two things that I use for this: Opera browser and Google Advance Search. So here are the steps:

  1. Open your Opera browser
  2. Go to Google Advanced Search
  3. Go down where its says site or domain
  4. Write the following: forums.opensuse.org this will allow you to use Google search for that specific site.
  5. Then go up to this exact word or phrase and with cursor on it right click and click create search
  6. A new window will pop up and write any letter(s) (suggestion: osf)where it says keyword. Then click OK and you are done!
  7. Now in the address bar of the opera browser write the letter(s) that you used in the step above space and the word that you want to look up. This should like this: osf kde4.
  8. Then Google will respond with a list of topics where your word is used, but only from the OpenSUSE forums

good job! you have discovered the google “site specifier”…

but, you don’t have to use Opera, and you don’t have to do a lot of
clicking around on the Google page, just form your search like this (for
example) and plop it in your URL location bar:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:forums.opensuse.org osf “kde4”

and if you want to search the English wiki
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:en.opensuse.org [search words “or
phrases”]

or the official documentation
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:doc.opensuse.org [search words “or
phrases”]

or to search every part of the openSUSE universe:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aopensuse.org

note: really that funny %3A is just there to replace a colon (":")
because in the brain dead forum software a colon in front of an “o”
results in an :o so it would look like this: site:opensuse.org


dd

Thanks for reinforcing the concept of more specific search! :good:However, the whole purpose of my post, even when I did not express it, was to expose the pure rookie to different browsers, and more specific search within specific browser, website and/or services. :stuck_out_tongue:

> the whole purpose of my post, even when I did not express
> it, was to . . .

the purpose of my post (though i didn’t express it) was to in this
how-to, to expand the information available to the “pure rookie”
without intending to even hint that the information previously given was
wrong or deficient… [if you got that idea: sorry!]

there might be others who will add similar expansions to both your and
my input…


dd

You can also use this URL :
Search - openSUSE.org