French Forum search

[jane56]

I've just found this on another forum and think is So useful.

On the top right of www.grumpyoldgitsinfrance.com they have search that looks in all the french forums and the like so you can find things wherever they where posted. It's done through Google somehow and looks just like a normal Google page.

Very handy if you are like me and keep seeing useful things but cannot remember where!

Jane

[Sunday Driver]

Just tried that search option.  It's just a custom Google search and it only seems to return links to a limited number of forums such as AngloInfo and Frenchentree - some sort of commercial tie-up, I imagine. So much for their claim "Search ALL French forums".

Not much use if it doesn't point you towards the best - LF........[:D]

 

[tebee]

Hi, I'm the man who wrote the search and, no it's not affiliated

to any of the sites mentioned nor is it a  commercially sponsored search, it fact the

whole of the grumpyoldgits site is none commercial, it run by its members for

it’s members,  the Google ad’s it carries

pay for the hosting and the like. It was just something I set up because I

thought it would be useful.

 

It should be finding posts from  Living France/Complete France as I’ve added

them to the site list to be searched,  in

fact  Complete France was the forth site

I added of currently 30 sites – though quite a few of them are the various

Angloinfo’s !  I’ll go away and check why

its not finding posts on here.

 

If anyone knows of any more sites that should be added please

let me know, there used to be a list of all French forums on  Peter’s Languedoc page but I can’t find it

now.

 

The search is freely available so if anyone wants to add it

to their site just let me know and I’ll send you the code.

Tom

[Cat]

It does return results for this forum if you use the right search criteria, try searching for Sunday Driver [:)]

[Clair]

[quote user="Cat"]It does return results for this forum if you use the right search criteria, try searching for Sunday Driver [:)][/quote]

I've done just that and it returned 10 pages on Sunday Driver's name alone!!!!!!!

You are a busy man...[:D]

[tebee]

Well I’ve

looked at my search and it seems that results for this forum are being returned,

but often on the later pages. This is , unfortunately , probably just a

refection of their position in the Google search rankings. The other two seem

to dominate there probably just by their shear size and popularity.. I’ll have

a look and see if  there is anyway I can influence

the ranking to give preference to what I consider to be the more informative

sites.

 

Oh and I’ve managed to find Peter’s list of

forums and I seem to have included most of them. Of the ones that are missing some

are general expat sites, to include them would bring in lots of confusing and irrelevant

information that applies to other counties. I’ve also left out some very small sites

and those that are now closed, also the MSN and Yahoo based ones as these are

mostly out of date