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By unclescott from the Searcher department, Section Diaries Posted on Wed Aug 29, 2007 at 12:54:39 PM PST Tags: (all tags)

If you are looking for something on Guppylog, I would recommend a Google search with [ Guppylog Topic ] rather than consuming one's time with the Scoop Search at the bottom of the GL page. Somedays Scoop works to a degree, somedays it doesn't. I was on another Scoop site and searching there was just as frustrating and ineffective, though the irrelevant and odd hits were interesting.

If you don't find what you were looking for the first try, search again under a related term. Sometimes using the name of a fish, disease, or the Guppylog member you remember making a comment or posting a log will help. If nothing else go with a very general theme: disease, plants, food and see what appears.

Heaven help you if you try Guppylog Guppies. ;)

On the NANFA site, they gave up their search engine. They recommend typing in NANFA and the topic on Google. They then give a link to Google.

They had been using a version of a pretty famous company's search engine. It just wasn't worth the bother.

I still don't know if I would run out and buy Google stock, especially at what it is selling for now. :)

All the best!
unc;e

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Right After the Quicklinks | 3 comments (3 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Guppylog Google search added (none / 0) (#3)
by miskairal on Sun Mar 26, 2006 at 11:33:15 PM PST

If you have trouble finding what you are after use the search box that has Google above it. You may read in older posts where searching wasn't always successful here. Now with the Google search that no longer applies.
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I never looked that far down (none / 0) (#1)
by maggie1270 on Sat Nov 06, 2004 at 05:54:42 AM PST

to see there was a search box. When I suggest searching guppylog for repeated questions, I will have to remember to inform the person to use the search link directly below Quicklinks.
Maggie

But the point Maggie is that sometimes the search (none / 0) (#2)
by unclescott on Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 07:37:17 AM PST

box gives absolutely nothing. Other days it works - some.

For instance today, Nov 8, at about 9 AM CDT, the GL search, I was pleased to see, yielded the following references:

brine shrimp 14
brine shrimp eggs 2

A Google search for Guppylog and ... yielded rather more.

[ Guppylog "brine shrimp" ] gave 329 hits.
It is true, some were redundant, some from other sites. More GL references were also offered.

[ Guppylog "brine shrimp eggs" ] gave 37 hits.

Some days, when GL search offers no hits when I knew there were lots of posts on the subject, one has no choice but to go to Google or the search engine of one's choice. It is my fear that visitors to GL or new members will get no hits through the Guppylog search and assume that there is nothing there.

I think this is one of the reasons why so many redundant questions get asked. Visitors don't have anyway of knowing that those (very important) questions have been asked already. Then Guppylog veterans get impatient at getting asked the same old, same old. :(

That doesn't have to be. :)

All the best!
unc;e

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