I've been using the fine resource of this list for the past year. The amount of information out there is massive. Today I was exploring ways to search the list information more effectively, and I'm sure I learned some things that would be useful to the users of the list. List archives are publicly accessible at http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/. That page, however in itself is not conducive to searching. But on the other hand it does make all of the discussions on this list available to the search engines including Google. That alone is not too helpful in finding particular information discussed on this list, but using advanced syntax in a google search will yield good results. To specifically search this list, you need to prefix your Google search with the following text: site:ptg.org inurl:pipermail/pianotech When using this code, be certain to leave no space after the colons. Here are some examples of searches that you might try on Google: site:ptg.org inurl:pipermail/pianotech tight pin site:ptg.org inurl:pipermail/pianotech tuning pin torque site:ptg.org inurl:pipermail/pianotech plate removal site:ptg.org inurl:pipermail/pianotech "plate removal" site:ptg.org inurl:pipermail/pianotech Steinway "plate removal" The last three search examples are progressively more specific. 1) Plate Removal -- Without the quotes, Google looks for the words plate and removal anyplace in the text. 2) "Plate Removal" -- With the quotes, Google looks for the words "plate removal" where they are adjacent in that order. 3) Steinway "Plate Removal" --- This narrows example 2, so that "plate removal" and Steinway are both found in the page. Enjoy! PS If this piques your interest in advanced techniques for Google search, here's the Google playbook: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=136861 -- Duane McGuire 801-830-5858 http://blog.duanemcguire.com http://mcguirepiano.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100410/f3d8a34d/attachment.htm>
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