Posted on 06/16/2022 8:50:52 AM PDT by MissEdie
A good search engine (not Google), using a search string formatted thusly:
Site:freerepublic.com MissEdie keyword1 keyword 2
Google is no damn good these days for looking up for anything posted on conservative sites.
Years ago I did a google search for one of my own long winded comments. I included “freerepublic” in the parameters. Bingo. It was the very first link listed in the results.
Years go by and again I’m looking up on Google for my very same comment on the very same article. Again, using “freerepublic” in the parameters. Nothing. Instead, I get links to various liberal media sources. CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Vox, Axios, the Huffington post, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc.
So,I head over to duckduckgo and do my search again, with “freerepublic” in the parameters. Bingo. The very article I was looking for was listed right at the top of my search results.
Ever since then, whenever I’ve done a search on Google for an article on freerepublic, they still give me links to various liberal media sources instead. If they do give me a link to freerepublic, it’s not to the article I’m looking for. Instead, it may give me a link to a FR keyword page or something like that.
Google “site:freerepublic.com MissEdie keyword1 keyword2 keyword3”
Of course, replace “keyword1,” “keyword2,” etc. with whatever it is your searching for
Start your search string with "site:freerepublic.com" and only results from Free Republic will be shown.
Go to your In Forum tab and do a browser "find in page" search for some relevant word in the post title you seek. Unfortunately, you'll have to go page by page.
None of it seems to work for me. Sometimes I try to find whether I’ve posted a particular recipe before on the cooking thread. Sometimes it works, but usually not.
- PJ
You couldn't even if you had wanted to. Unless your are really talking about PMs (personal messages).
You can use this...
https://www.google.com/advanced_search
On the “this exact word or phrase” line put MissEdie
On the “all, any, or none of these words” lines try various combinations
On the “site or domain” line put freeepublic.com
Check all of the options available on the other lines and use as needed
Yeah try it but don’t give up if you get nothing.
This will give all posts in 2019 & 2020. MissEdie
"site:[SITE URL]" tells google and most search engines to limit the search to the specific website.
How did the birthday present for your hubby go over?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/2817935/posts?page=1#1
LOL, that one didn't age well.
It was inocuous as I could find and I didnt proof it out. Hope I didnt stir up anything. I did make it back to her very 1st post.
Cool (I had not noticed the custom date range option before now)
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