Thread Search Question

looking to search for threads with more than 25 posts

[JustTrying]

Does anybody know of a way to do a search within the forum to find threads conataining certain keywords that has more than 25 (an arbitrary number) posts?

[paynt]

No clue but an interesting question. Can I ask why?

[JustTrying]

Certainly:-)

I would like to do some searches on different topics that have been discussed here before; and it seems IMO like generally the "good threads" (i.e. threads that a lot of people find interesting) will have lots of different views posted to think about for any particular topic. I always like a diversity of opinions.

That is not to say of course that threads with only a couple of posts are not good (sometimes REALLY great threads get overlooked).

P.S. It was really nice to meet you at the PubCon, and I appreciated your suggesstion on bringing older threads back to life again using links to the older locked threads.

[paynt]

I like it, have you tried Google? When I can't get the search here to work like I want I switch to Google. I'd have to use my brain and I'm still in jet lag or I’d figure out myself how to make that work. Maybe you can tell me ;)

I enjoyed meeting you too. Now, start searching for those old posts and let's see where they lead, ha! I’ll be watching for what you come up with just report back.

[Birdman]

Paynt hit it on the head. Go to Google and use a search like this:

site:www.webmasterworld.com keyword(s)+2-15.htm

The 2-15.htm denotes that it is page #2 with 15 posts per page. If you want threads with even more posts just up the 2 to whatever you want.

[JustTrying]

Cool beans Birdman! Thank you for that response. This trick should be really helpful and interesting.

Also, thank you Paynt. After Brett had mentioned some time ago that the in-site search was the most resource intensive part of the forum I stopped using it, and started using Google's "site:" funtionality (with better results sometimes ;-)

[limbo]

I have to add here that a post last year on shaving, the essence of shaving, what the best razor to use and how best to shave went on for over 100 posts

:)

[edited by: limbo at 3:15 pm (utc) on April 30, 2003]

[Birdman]

It is pretty cool! You can even restrict the search to a particular forum by adding:

site:www.webmasterworld.com keyword(s)+forum19/2-15.htm

...where 19 is interchangeable according to the forum you want to search.

[paynt]

Very cool Birdman, thanks for insight.

[JustTrying]

VERY much appreciated Birdman. Do you know of any other cool searching stuff along these lines?

[vitaplease]

Nice advanced searching Birdman,

You might want to check out Allthewebs advanced search and fool around with:

"Size - Only find results that are larger than XX kb "

Some of the "meatier" (paynt style :)) single page threads will turn up as well.

[Birdman]

Thanks you guys! You know I learned that stuff here!

After looking further, seems the plus(+) sign isn't needed, that is unless you have a generic word that you don't want excluded(i.e. the, where, how, etc..)

Advanced Search Made Easy(Google) [google.com]
Advanced Search Operators(Google) [google.com]
Query Language(Alltheweb.com) [alltheweb.com]