A quick way to find freeware in alt.comp.freeware

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An Metet

Newbies to this group mightn't be aware that this newsgroup is searchable on Google Groups. All
you need to do is follow the link below & you will be taken directly to the advanced search page.
Just type in what you want (eg. cd burner) & it will give you a list of posts with those words in
the subject or body, the most recent ones first.

The shortcut:

http://tinyurl.com/3zl8u
 
An said:
Newbies to this group mightn't be aware that this newsgroup is
searchable on Google Groups. All you need to do is follow the link
below & you will be taken directly to the advanced search page. Just
type in what you want (eg. cd burner) & it will give you a list of
posts with those words in the subject or body, the most recent ones
first.

The shortcut:

http://tinyurl.com/3zl8u
Click to expand...

Interesting - how did you manage to get a URL with "alt.comp.freeware"
already filled in the box on the Advanced Groups Search page? That could be
very useful to me.

Is this something you can do with forms pages generally, or is this just
something you could do on the Google page?
 
spoon2001 said:
Interesting - how did you manage to get a URL with "alt.comp.freeware"
already filled in the box on the Advanced Groups Search page? That could be
very useful to me.

Is this something you can do with forms pages generally,
Click to expand...

Often enough... experiment around a bit
 
Interesting - how did you manage to get a URL with "alt.comp.freeware"
already filled in the box on the Advanced Groups Search page? That could be
very useful to me.

Is this something you can do with forms pages generally, or is this just
something you could do on the Google page?
Click to expand...


This is how I do it.

Go to the Google page for alt.comp.freeware (or whatever group you
want)

Click on:-

Search only in alt.comp.freeware

Click on:-

Advanced Group Search

Book mark the page that comes up - it will have alt.comp.freeware in
the "Return only messages from the newsgroup" box next time you go to
that link.
 
Interesting - how did you manage to get a URL with
"alt.comp.freeware" already filled in the box on the Advanced
Groups Search page? That could be very useful to me.
Click to expand...

Perform a search with whatever fields you want filled in, then click
the "advanced search" link at the top of the results page.
Is this something you can do with forms pages generally, or is
this just something you could do on the Google page?
Click to expand...

Google keeps all the info about the search in the URL, and this method
will work with any site that does that. If a site keeps track of your
searching by using cookies or other means, it's not so easy.
 
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