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BBfanboy -> RE: How to Use DuckDuckGo to Search the Forum (11/20/2021 8:33:06 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Panjack
Basic search for a word, such as BURMA, in DuckDuckGo:
site:matrixgames.com “War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition” +Burma
Note two things about this search. First, quote marks surround “War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition.” Second, a “+” appears before the search term, Burma. You can run a search without these quote marks and without the “+,” but the results will most likely be worse. The “+” tells DDG that what follows is what you are really interested in, and results with multiple incidences of BURMA will get ranked higher. (As opposed to results with multiple incidences of the phrase, “War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition.”)
Once you run one search within DDG, you can bookmark that page. Later, you can go to that bookmark and change the particular search you want to run and then rerun it. This way you won't have to enter all the parts of the search.
If you want more authoritative results for technical aspects of the game, add the word “Alfred” to your search:
site:matrixgames.com “War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition” +Burma Alfred
Then, once you click on a particular search result, use your browser to search for “Alfred” on the page on the screen. Multiple incidences of this name might exist on the page. You can also rerun the search by putting a “+” before Alfred, and a different set of search results might appear:
site:matrixgames.com “War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition” +Burma +Alfred
If you want to search for phrase, such as BURMA ROAD, then you put quote marks around the phrase:
site:matrixgames.com “War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition” +”Burma road”
However, this will miss posts that have the following: “how do I get supplies up the road in Burma.” If your initial search (above) doesn’t seem to get what you’re interested in, rerun the search as follows:
site:matrixgames.com “War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition” +Burma +road
You can remove the “+” from either of the above to get slightly different search results.
You add any combination of phrases and/or words as your search terms:
site:matrixgames.com “War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition” +"Burma road" Monsoon +Headquarters -AK
Notice the "-" above: this tells DDG to exclude results that have what appears after the "-."
Often, trial-and-error is needed to get results giving you the information you are looking for...or leading you to the conclusion that the information you are looking for does not exist.
For new players: If you just can't find the information you need after searching, ask a question on the forum. In your question, you might report the searches you have performed because some people on the forum might ask if you've done your due diligence in trying to find answers by searching the forum.
And what is DDG - A site? An app? If the latter, where is it available?
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