Narrowing the search engine

[MaltbyStu]

I'm having some trouble narrowing the search engine dates.

For example, say I want to search for all posts by Jman28. I go to the archive and the oldest post I can find is by entering the following in the search boxes..

username search: jman

newer blank
older 2 years

oldest My Bluff didn't work (low content) STT Strategy Jman28 03/16/05 03:48 AM
newest Re: Prerequisite downloads. Other Other Topics Jman28 04/29/05 02:42 AM

This is the 200 post max.

What I can not figure out is how to get the next 200?

The closest I have managed to get is by entering the following....

newer blank
older 1 years
newset Re: TPGK vs Wierd Action. 5/10 Medium Stakes Jman28 12/31/05 03:26 AM
oldest Re: Help my kids school! Other Other Topics Jman28 10/16/05 05:11 AM

However, there is a gap between 4/29 and 10/16.

Can somebody tell me how to view the posts with no gaps?

Thanks,

Stu

[Sniper]

He may have a lot of posts per month, so go thru the search month by month...

Newer than 16, older than 15
Newer than 17, older than 16
etc...

[StevieG]

Making Archive Search Easier

The date range is required and that is not very easy to work with, because you need to put in a start and stop range for the date, in terms of weeks or days ago, and you need to figure out how long ago Dec 31, 2005 was.

Here is a bookmarklet to specify date ranges for searching the 2+2 archives:

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
javascriptfunction() {maxDays=120; archDate=new Date(2006,00,01);
today=new Date(); var interval=parseInt(prompt("What " +
maxDays + " day interval?\n(1 starts back from " +
(archDate.getMonth()+1) +"/" + (archDate.getDate()+1)
+"/" + (archDate.getYear()+1900) + ")", "1"));
if (isNaN(interval)) {interval=1; };
older=Math.ceil((today.getTime()-archDate.getTime())/(1000*60*60*24)) + (maxDays * (interval-1));
document.forms[0]["newertype"].value="d";
document.forms[0]["oldertype"].value="d";
document.forms[0]["olderval"].value=older;
document.forms[0]["newerval"].value=older+maxDays;})()
</pre><hr />


Here's how to use the bookmarklet:

1. Copy all of the above text inside the lines above to your favorite simple text editor, like Notepad.

2. Remove all of the carriage returns, so that all the text is on one line.

3. Create a bookmark or favorite in your browser. Give it a title like "Specify date range for 2+2 archive search"

4. Copy the one line text from step 2 into the URL or Location for the Favorite or Bookmark

Go to the archive page, and once you are there, select the bookmark. When you use the bookmark link on the archive search page, a dialog will come up asking you to select the interval. Use "1" for the 120 days previous to 1/1/2006, "2" for the 120 days before that, and so on.

The code will then automatically insert the correct values into the date range.

[Colt McCoy]

It's much easier to just use Google. Just specify the domain as http://archiveserver.twoplustwo.com.