Sparky forum search

handy1912 · April 09, 2018, 01:37:09 PM

I will first ingratiate myself by saying that in my opinion Sparky is by far the best and friendliest Linux distro for non tech Windows 10 refugees.
This forum is friendly and helpful. Now comes the bad news.
The search is utterly useless and returns no results for everything I type in. After grovelling about and spending ages reading irrelevent stuff I finally find within the forum some discussion regarding my topic. The search does not find it with relevent words in search box.
When I had a web site I used freefind.com which returns every mention of the word or words in ones search. I am not sure if they charge for use with forums such as this but I still have them on my Tumbler blog,inactive at the moment but still up. free of charge. They are great people to deal with. One can chose when one wants the site spidered, ie: daily weekly etc.
I love Sparky and anything to make it user friendly for the computer illiterate such as myself must be worth a thought.

seppalta · April 09, 2018, 11:13:49 PM

I found the following little html script useful for finding linux stuff:

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Forum Search</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="white">SEARCH ENGINES:</br>
	https://unbubble.eu/</br>
	http://gibiru.com/</br>
	https://searx.me/</br>
	https://www.startpage.com/</br></br>
	
	<span STYLE="float : left; width :500; background-color :#BFBFBF; padding: 8px; font-size :15px; color :#FFFF00"><script src="http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.google.com/cse/api/017607476515012185699/cse/b_owgx6xyi0/gadget&amp;synd=open&amp;w=490&amp;h=100&amp;title=SEARCH+LINUX+FORUMS&amp;border=%23ffffff%7C0px%2C1px+solid+%23993333%7C0px%2C1px+solid+%23bb5555%7C0px%2C1px+soli+%23DD7777%7C0px%2C2px+solid+%23EE8888&amp;output=js"></script></span>
<span STYLE="float : right; width :550; background-color :#BFBFBF; padding: 8px; font-size :15px; color :#FFFF00">
<table width=500 height=25 cellpaddig=2 cellspacing=2 border=0 bgcolor=#BFBFBF><tr><td align=center valign=bottom>
<font size="2" face="arial" color="FF0000"><u>SEARCH WEB</u></font></td></tr></table>
<table height=135 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=4 border=3 bgcolor=#FFFFFF bordercolor=#FF0000><tr><td align=center valign=middle>
<iframe style="width:490px; height:100px; margin:5px;" frameborder=0 allowtransparency=yes scrolling=no src="http://search.digitalpoint.com/iframe.php?site=&b=1&l=1"></iframe></td></tr></table></span>

</BODY>
</HTML>

Save it anywhere, say as search.html, make it executable. Set-up a panel, menu, desktop, or whatever launcher. Open it and type your search words in the box and click enter.

Sparky forum search

handy1912

seppalta