Dangerous intersection is now more than 1 1/2 years old. We currently have a couple dozen active authors who have contributed 1,500 posts on 60 categories. These posts have drawn almost 7,000 comments. Many of these posts (I’m guessing perhaps one-third of them) make reference to news of the day, and will age quickly. There are many other posts that may be of some value months or even years after they were written, however. Our authors work hard to embed useful quality links in their posts in an effort to inject lasting value into their posts.
Quite often, I run into a topic that has been addressed in some detail by a previous post. Tracking down those older posts can sometimes be a challenge. The Dangerous Intersection website, which is built upon WordPress, includes a search function that often works fairly well in digging up previous posts and comments. On other occasions, however, the algorithm of that simple search function pulls up too few or too many search results to be useful.
On those occasions, I have turned to the exquisite “Advanced Search” function of Google. [1] Google’s Advanced Search allows you to focus on the content of a particular website. You can do this by inserting the URL of that website into the “Domain” field. For instance, if you wanted to search only content found on Dangerous Intersection, merely insert http://dangerousintersection.org/ [2] into the Domain box.
At that point, you can continue to fine-tune your search in many additional ways. See, for example, the top four fields on the advanced search screen [1]. You can request Google to return only those results that contain each of the words you enter, or an exact phrase, or all those results containing at least one of a string of words. You can also ask Google to exclude content containing a word or words that you designate.
You can fine-tune your search request in other ways too. For instance, you can request content within certain date ranges or limit your search to content found in certain parts of a webpage (e.g., only in the title). For more assistance in using Google’s advanced search, see the Google Help Screen [3] for it’s Advanced Search.
I offer this information regarding Google advanced search for those of you who might want to search for information on this site (or on any website) where the simple search feature offered on the website itself doesn’t quite get the job done.
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