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Originally Posted by ajbrown
If you click on the link Hal provided in post #8 it takes you to google and shows the search he performed. Hal, what is the /forums in the search after talkofthevillages.com?
Here is the link again:
http://goo.gl/Df5NM
It is a funny looking link as Hal must have shortened it before posting it here as it was too long
The original link was a mouthful  :
Code:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site:https://www.talkofthevillages.com/forums+bonefish+grill#sclient=psy&hl=en&tbo=1&q=site:www.talkofthevillages.com%2Fforums+bonefish+grill&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=1&cad=b
If you go to http://goo.gl you can see how links can be shortened. |
I actually have a URL shortener button on the browser so it's easy to send a shortened URL when it gets so long.
That long messy URL is generated by Google. If you go to Google.com and enter any search arguments, then hit the search button you'll see a messy URL. If you wanted to send a link to that Google search page you almost have to shorten it.
Regarding the "/forums". I didn't think about it,but you don't really need that. Often forums are a subset of a web site. If, for example, the TOTV forum was an area on thevillages.com you'd want to narrow your search to just the forums so you didn't get reference from the rest of the site. In this case, talkofthevillages.com is just the forums so the extra qualifier is not necessary.
Hope that helps.