Tips & Tricks for web searches focusing on discussion forum sites

[mech-eng]

How can we make a search just focusing on forum sites? Is there any discussion search options in search engines?

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-forum-search-engines-to-search-40-000-message-boards/

http://www.seobythesea.com/2010/02/googles-specialized-forum-and-discussion-thread-search-results/

Unfortunately forum sites don't have a characteristic extension such edu, If it would have been so, the search would have been done very easily.

Thanks and regards.

 

[Evo]

Have you tried putting the forum name in the search string if you know which forum it was in?

 

[mech-eng]

Have you tried putting the forum name in the search string if you know which forum it was in?

I actually wanted to search some keywords in forums instead of a speacial forum.

Thank you.

 

[Evo]

I actually wanted to search some keywords in forums instead of a speacial forum.

Thank you.

I don't know of anyway you could do anything other than type "forum" and see if that narrows down your search in the off chance the forum actually has forum in it's name.

 

[phinds]

I agree w/ Evo. Forums are just web sites.

 

[jedishrfu]

You can narrow google searches using the “site:” prefix to a single site.

They may have a way to provide a list or some common pattern but what you’re looking for is a means to identify forum sites or maybe xenforo sites ie based on the software used by the site.

You’d need to ask google about it. Offhand I don’t kno but I think there may be a way. Here’s what I found using “google forum site specific searching”

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en

 

[jedishrfu]

More on google search tips

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...-pro-10-tips-and-tricks-for-google-and-beyond

 

[berkeman]

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...-pro-10-tips-and-tricks-for-google-and-beyond

Nice article!

This tip from your link might be close to what the OP wants:

9. Search for related sites


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Related search. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs for the Guardian
The related qualifier is useful for finding similar sites. Searching for related:theguardian.com for instance, will bring up the websites of other news organisations that Google deems the most similar to the Guardian.