Still Smart archive searching

[Boozoid]

There is so much good info on the Still Smart Archive, but now I can't use the search functions..

Is there anyway the search function can be made to work?

[Mash]

I think that might be a pointer thing - that has changed since it shutdown perhaps?

[Easydrinker]

I did notice, before Still Smart went redundant, that using the search button from our archive would take me back to the site, in real time.

Robert.

[Easydrinker]

It would seem that while our archive link to Still Smart works, since Jimmy closed the site down, the search button does not.
And will not, ever again
All the info is still there, it will just take longer to find.
When I equate this to my efforts of finding distilling advice, back in the pre-interweb days, it really is Small Potatoes.
I used to spend hours in libraries.
You can now do this from the comfort of home.
Chill, not everything is instant.

Robert.

[Jennysgin]

It may be possible to search the archives using the advanced search option on Google.

Try typing in your search term then a space then
site:Still smarter.co.uk

Eg, to search for fast fermenting vodka try

Ffv site:Still smarter.co.uk

Good luck!

[Easydrinker]

That doesnae work.
But I admire you trying.

Robert.

[Jennysgin]

Or go through the wee settings bit?...

[Easydrinker]

Without wishing to sound at all patronising.
Shit, if you have found a way to make this work, then I love you, and want to have your babies!
I will have to come back to this, as I am flagging and need sleep, I am failing fast.
If there was a safe emogi for internet love, consider it sent.

Robert.

[Curmudgeon]

Im sure Jenny is on a winner, but can't remember the details.

I know that's how they do it on the other obnoxious stilling forum where any comment or question is unwelcome until you have read every thread and have 200 years experience.

Edit : I mean other distilling forum (that is obnoxious,unlike this one), not other obnoxious forum (about home distilling) as the above could read.

[Easydrinker]

Good Morning all and especially to Jenny.
Google advanced search will indeed search the Still Smart archive hosted on Still Smarter.
It is a little more work, but only a little.

For example, to search for Cachaca,put this in the Google search bar:

cachaca site:Stillsmarter.co.uk

Everybody buy that girl a drink!

Robert.

[Mash]

Yes indeedy - internet love goes to Jenny!

[Boozoid]

Thanks JennysGin for a great solution. I was trying to find a bit of info and had trawled around to no avail. Searched via google and it popped up in seconds.

[Jennysgin]

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[Moss]

Erm, can someone please take the time to explain this to me? I am thinking of putting a landing page between the forum and the archive. It would be sensible to add instructions, but I need to understand this first.

Moss

[Easydrinker]

To search the archive
Open google
In the search bar type, subject searched for space site colon stillsmarter.co.uk
But as below, with subject of choice.
cachaca site:Stillsmarter.co.uk.
Whisky site:Stillsmarter.co.uk.
etc.

You have to make stillsmarter joined up or it won't work.
I am sure you can find a better way of describing it

Robert.

[phantom]

Well f**k me sideways with the rough end of a pineapple..........

Well done to all that have worked this out. Read this a few times in the last few weeks and been mulling over the idea of somehow scraping the text into the specific titles per thread to recreate it as a text per thread.

Was thinking stuff like it didn't matter about the original author(s), because it's the text that's important (the original author could pipe up, should someone have a question - if they're here of course).

But hey ho, solved and searchable, so still available and usable etc.

Top marks to all who've worked it out using the existing tools that are available.......

[Easydrinker]

Just given this searching a whiz.,for the first time in awhile. It mostly seems to work.
A few exceptions, which I put down to moving hosts and servers.
It is mostly all still there.
Ploughing through the archive click by click always seems to work.
Please feel free to invest your time and energy dragging stuff over to our new homebase,if you think it worthwhile.

Robert.