# using google to search SDMB

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-google-to-search-sdmb/442414>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [March 23, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-google-to-search-sdmb/442414 "2008-03-23T05:20:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-google-to-search-sdmb/442414/1 "2008-03-23T05:20:19Z")

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Why come I can’t use google’s “site:” parameter to search [boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com)?

-FrL-

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**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-google-to-search-sdmb/442414/2 "2008-03-23T05:47:00Z")

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If you’re serious, it’s because the Straight Dope has blocked google’s spiderbots. If you’re joking, it’s not that funny.

Why come? Because vinegar would be weird? And possibly painful?

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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-google-to-search-sdmb/442414/3 "2008-03-23T06:36:20Z")

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[QUOTE=Inner Stickler]  
If you’re serious, it’s because the Straight Dope has blocked google’s spiderbots. If you’re joking, it’s not that funny.

Why come? Because vinegar would be weird? And possibly painful?  
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I don’t know how I would have been joking had I been joking. How would I have been?

-FrL-

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**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/using-google-to-search-sdmb/442414/4 "2008-03-23T06:44:14Z")

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Sorry, I’m a little on edge. There are a plethora of threads about the lack of search function, using [Boardreader.com](http://Boardreader.com) as a makeshift search function and why google isn’t the board’s search function. It seemed unlikely that you missed all that. My apologies.