# An SD Search Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-sd-search-question/532531>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [March 15, 2010, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-sd-search-question/532531 "2010-03-15T11:43:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-sd-search-question/532531/1 "2010-03-15T11:43:33Z")

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From time to time, I’ve wished to be able to search my own posts for a keyword. Feasible to set up?

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**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-sd-search-question/532531/2 "2010-03-15T11:59:44Z")

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You can do that already. Click on **search** , then click on **advanced search**. There you can search for keywords posted by yourself or any particular user.

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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-sd-search-question/532531/3 "2010-03-15T12:27:55Z")

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Thanks. :smack:

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-sd-search-question/532531/4 "2010-03-15T13:14:50Z")

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And since your username is unique, you can use Google very easily:

[site:boards.straightdope.com adhay](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&q=site%3Aboards.straightdope.com+adhay&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=)

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-sd-search-question/532531/5 "2010-03-16T00:18:42Z")

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Google doesn’t work as well for that purpose because it’ll pick up the keyword anywhere on the page, even if it isn’t in the user’s posts. Of course, vB won’t let you look for very short acronyms like BBC, but Google will do that handily.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-sd-search-question/532531/6 "2010-03-16T00:44:59Z")

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From the ATMB sticky thread “FAQ - Technical issues for Posting”  
[HOWTO: Search the SDMB using Google](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11650034#post11650034)