You said this back in 2010!

I think it would be nice to be able to search conversations between two
different posters. I know I can find all of my old posts, but sometimes being
able to see just the exchanges I have had with another poster would be
very handy! Even being able to see conversations between two different
people would be nice.

Originally posted by KellyJay
I think it would be nice to be able to search conversations between two
different posters. I know I can find all of my old posts, but sometimes being
able to see just the exchanges I have had with another poster would be
very handy! Even being able to see conversations between two different
people would be nice.

You can do this with Google:

site:redhotpawn.com "Originally posted by KellyJay" BigDoggProblem

Originally posted by BigDoggProblem
You can do this with Google:

site:redhotpawn.com "Originally posted by KellyJay" BigDoggProblem

Well, thank you very much did not know that!

Originally posted by BigDoggProblem
You can do this with Google:

site:redhotpawn.com "Originally posted by KellyJay" BigDoggProblem

This will find conversations with quotes only I fear.

Originally posted by Ponderable
This will find conversations with quotes only I fear.

...which is what OP wanted. People tend to quote your post when they talk to you.

Originally posted by BigDoggProblem
You can do this with Google:

site:redhotpawn.com "Originally posted by KellyJay" BigDoggProblem

Now you got me thinking I've never used google search, but I have used
grep and findstr quite a bit. Does it allow for searches like that and add in
another field? I know how to search within a specific file for two different
values like:


findstr "value1 value2" file_whatever > c:\temp\findvalue1_2.txt

This would help finding a specific conversation looking up a key word.

Originally posted by KellyJay
Now you got me thinking I've never used google search, but I have used
grep and findstr quite a bit. Does it allow for searches like that and add in
another field? I know how to search within a specific file for two different
values like:


findstr "value1 value2" file_whatever > c:\temp\findvalue1_2.txt

This would help finding a specific conversation looking up a key word.

Google search is quite flexible. You can give it a laundry list of terms, like:

einstein relativity "god does not play dice"

...and get a bunch of articles with all of those terms in them. The quotes mean that the words within must be in that order. "Einstein" and "relativity", however, can be anywhere on the page - far apart from one another, even (it does tend to list matches with terms close together higher on the results list.)

More helpful tips:

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433

Originally posted by BigDoggProblem
Google search is quite flexible. You can give it a laundry list of terms, like:

einstein relativity "god does not play dice"

...and get a bunch of articles with all of those terms in them. The quotes mean that the words within must be in that order. "Einstein" and "relativity", however, can be anywhere on the page - far apart from one another, e ...[text shortened]... the results list.)

More helpful tips:

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433

I am really appreciative of your help! Thanks for all, link included.

Originally posted by KellyJay
I am really appreciative of your help! Thanks for all, link included.

You can do similar things with most search engines. I know you can on Bing (see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795620.aspx for keywords) and I believe I used to do it on Yahoo as well. (My Yahoo experience is decades old, so I could not find a reference.)

Originally posted by jertamev
You can do similar things with most search engines. I know you can on Bing (see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795620.aspx for keywords) and I believe I used to do it on Yahoo as well. (My Yahoo experience is decades old, so I could not find a reference.)

Thank you