Search woes got you down?

[Syringer]

Found this over at Forum Issues, and thought it'd be useful for people here..

Originally posted by: xtknight
You can search a specific forum category with Google but it's a little more complicated.

widescreen inurl:catid=31 site:forums.anandtech.com will search only the Video forum (catid=31) for "widescreen".

Here are all catids (category IDs):

General Hardware: 27
Operating Systems: 34
For Sale/Trade: 45
Hot Deals: 40
Off Topic: 38
Politics and News: 52
SFF, Notebooks, Pre-Built/Barebones PCs: 51
Highly Technical: 50
Cases & Cooling: 37
CPU/Processors and Overclocking: 28
Distributed Computing: 39
Motherboards: 29
Networking: 36
Peripherals: 30
Software - Apps, Programming and Games: 33
Technical Support: 32
Video: 31
Forum Issues: 42

It might've been posted here but I wouldn't knw

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

What about archived messages?

 

[Syringer]

Archived messages are trickier..you can click on the cached version of the old link, but I'm not sure how you can click through the pages, since Google only archives it using the default view of 20 posts per page..