I have some things I was reading at a site that I can’t find today. Is there a way to find it with a search engine?
I’ve tried a couple, but I can’t get them to focus on the one site. It seem like there must be a way to do this.
I have some things I was reading at a site that I can’t find today. Is there a way to find it with a search engine?
I’ve tried a couple, but I can’t get them to focus on the one site. It seem like there must be a way to do this.
Try google.com. Enter a few words about the subject you were reading about. Read all of the hits. If that doesnt’t work,try using a meta-search like dogpile.com. Read all of the hits. If that doesn’t work, try a different search engine. Repeat.
Could try re-searching the same engine - sometimes it’s possible to forget which one you used and they do vary in content.
Think the easiest thing to do is click the ‘History’ tab in Internet Explorer or Netscape (at the top of your screen)and look through the relevant days’ record. It’ll be there, somewhere.
The link may still be in your browser’s disk cache. If you use netscape, type about:cache, and your disk cache contents will be displayed.
Some search engines (such as altavista) let you enter part of a url as part of the search. This is handy if you can recall some of the url name.
Arjuna34
And for those particularly frisky sites, try the safe browser at http://www.samspade.org
To tell AltaVista to return search hits from a particular site, you start the search with “host:[blankety-blank].com” or “.edu” or whatever. Prob’ly works with other search engines, but I can’t say for sure.
Note that because of the way AltaVista’s indexing crawler works, this will return hits only from AV’s indexed bank, and doesn’t actively search the relevant site. So if the content you’re looking for was added since AltaVista last hit the site, this won’t work for you.
Example: Enter this search in AltaVista – “host:straightdope.com felch” – and you’ll see all of the pages AV’s indexer has picked up on straightdope.com with the word (or word part) “felch.” All other sites with that word will be excluded. Again, though, any “felch” pages added since the last time AV spidered through SD won’t come up.
It’s worth a try…