How to (sort of) search forum with Google
Posted by: davidge on 27 January 2011
Here are two ways of searching the forum with Google - they are not pretty and will only show you pages as Google last saw them (which will be out of date by varying degrees).
Complete web search:
Go to Google and do your search (e.g. Naim CDX2).
When you see a result that links to the Naim forum (i.e. the last line of the result shows "forums.naimaudio.com/eve/forums...") click on the 'cached' link next to it (i.e. NOT the main result link).
Google will then display an unformatted version of the forum page highlighting your search terms.
Forum only search:
Go to Google.
Click on 'Advanced search'.
Fill in the search form and in the 'Search within a site or domain' field enter: forums.naimaudio.com
Do the search (click on 'Advanced Search' button).
You will now see only search results from the forums.
To view a result click on the 'cached' link on the last line of a result as above.
As I say not pretty, somewhat awkward and results won't be bang up to date - but may be better than nothing until the proper forum search is made available.
Personally I think it is shocking that we should have to resort to jumping through such hoops (and to get less than ideal results) as Naim should have ensured that search was there on day 1 and not released the new forum until it was.