Well it is a good post (great actually) but experience tells me that the people that need to read it probably won't read it even as a sticky. But for what it’s worth here is my two cents:
HOW TO SEARCH.
Ok vBulletin search engine sucks, sorry it does. So for our purposes here lets skip to a search engine that really works, Google. Google has a site search function that for some reason people often over looked. The format for this is simple
“site” colon “website domain name” “search terms here”
Example site:anabolicminds.com first cycle
The above search yielded 980 pages. To reduce the number of hits we need to add another term, say “TRN”. Now we have 145 pages. If that is too many add the words “dosage”. Now we are down to 64 pages. You should get the idea here. The final search term should look like this
site:anabolicminds.com first cycle TRN dosage
You can also go to the advanced page (Invalid Link Removed) and do this the long way.
This is a copy of the Google cheat sheet. Use it as it will save you a lot of time. Searching for some study that you don’t know the headings for? (a lot of studies we look at are based on the drug we are interested in where the studies are usually disease oriented).This is how you do it.
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OPERATOR EXAMPLE FINDS PAGES CONTAINING...
What you type and what it means
Default is the AND operator vacation hawaii (the words vacation and Hawaii)
The OR Maui OR Hawaii (either the word Maui or the word Hawaii)
Quotes "To each his own" (the exact phrase)
The NOT operator is the minus sign virus –computer (the word virus but NOT the word computer)
+ means must have Star Wars Episode +I (This movie title, including the roman numeral I)
~ anything in this category ~auto loan (loan info for both the word auto and its synonyms: truck, car, etc.)
dictionary define:computer (definitions of the word computer from around the Web.)
ADVANCED OPERATORS MEANING WHAT TO TYPE INTO SEARCH BOX (& DESCRIPTION OF RESULTS)
site: Search only one website admission site:Invalid Link Removed (Search Stanford Univ. site for admissions info.)
[#]…[#] Search within a range of numbers DVD player $100..150(Search for DVD players between $100 and $150)
date: Search only a range of months Olympics date: 3 (Search for Olympics references within past 3, 6, 12-month)
safesearch: Exclude adult-content safesearch: sex education(Search for sex ed material without returning adult sites)
link: linked pages link:Invalid Link Removed (Find pages that link to the Stanford University website.)
info: Info about a page info:Invalid Link Removed (Find information about the Stanford University website.)
related: Related pages related:Invalid Link Removed (Find websites related to the Stanford University website.)