Is there a way to search within your own profile for a word/phrase?

[fin]

I’m having deja vu about something. I think I may have tried to make a “spinnerbait/chatterbait” combination before, and talked about it here somewhere, but a search for that phrase brings up 91 pages of results. Is there some way to search only the comments I have made?

[roadwarrior]

Bring up your posting history by simply tapping your name.

[fin]

Well that gets it down to 47 pages I would need to look through, so I guess that's an improvement, but I was hoping for something a little easier.

[Team9nine]

 

20 minutes ago, fin said:

Well that gets it down to 47 pages I would need to look through, so I guess that's an improvement, but I was hoping for something a little easier.

I didn’t find such a thread, but yes, use advanced search feature and “search by author” - just enter your own name, then enter your keyword(s).

[Fishlegs]

You can do a keyword using the "search by author" option. Do a search, then click "more search options", and select "search by author", and put your name in, and choose "all content". I got 22 results when I did that search using the keyword spinnerbait, and your username.

[fin]

Ah. I see that now at the top. I didn't see it before, I was looking at all the options below that.

 

And it looks like I haven't talked about it before, but I sure have talked about spinnerbaits a lot 😄

[casts_by_fly]

Google is also your friend. Instead of using the sites search function, just go to google. Put in bassresource, your name, and the word you want. It should hit it in the first couple links. 

[Catt]

I have better results using Google except a little different than @casts_by_fly.

 

Enter the word you want first followed by your name & then bassresource.com.

[MN Fisher]

And I'm different still - in Google put

 

site:bassresource.com "MN Fisher"

 

And it'll pull up all posts I made and anytime someone tagged/quoted me in their post. You can put anything you want between the quote marks.

 

site:bassresource.com "MN Fisher spinning" narrows that down to any post that mentions spinning and you can just keep adding words ad-nausium.

[casts_by_fly]

1 hour ago, MN Fisher said:

And I'm different still - in Google put

 

site:bassresource.com "MN Fisher"

 

And it'll pull up all posts I made and anytime someone tagged/quoted me in their post. You can put anything you want between the quote marks.

 

site:bassresource.com "MN Fisher spinning" narrows that down to any post that mentions spinning and you can just keep adding words ad-nausium.

 

this is actually the best way to do it. The site: nomenclature is official google text for searching. I’m too lazy to type it all out so when I just put in bassresource it gives 4 or 5 links with “more from bassresource.com” below it in case the first couple aren’t it. 

[Glenn]

18 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

this is actually the best way to do it.

 

Well....with a caveat.  Google never indexes EVERY page of a website.  In fact, there are tens of thousands of posts that Google hasn't indexed.  That's a relative small amount of pages, but if one of them is the post you want, you won't find it via Google.

 

The site search functions on this site index EVERY page and post.  So that is the best way to find what you want.