How to filter search results in a google or yahoo searchengine result list

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:15:23 +0100
niel <bqz69 at telia.com> wrote:

> Sometimes when I search  help in this mailing list, mostly in google or yahoo, 
> I get a list of results consisting of for example 39 pages of 100 results on 
> each page.
> 
> Anybody know about a program, which you can use to search the whole list, and 
> then abstracting only the important parts (containing your keywords), so your 
> list end up much smaller.
> 
> To go through a list of some 39 pages is a fairly impossible task, I find, may 
> take hours.
> 
For example: 

 site:lists.ubuntu.com bqz69

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=site:lists.ubuntu.com+bqz69&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&start=0&sa=N

or

site:lists.ubuntu.com  fluxbox slow bug

and so on. The more search terms, the less hits, of course...

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:)

Peter


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