The Virtues of Internet Search...

Sk8r · 03/09/2016, 01:33 PM

Quite often if you will simply set your search on your browser, spell carefully, try it with scientific names as well as common, and use more than one browser, you can find pix and very detailed descriptions of various fish, inverts, diseases, parasites, algaes, and problems that you run into.

You ask why we mods know stuff. We don't always know stuff. And we don't always stay at Holiday Inn...But we do know how to use our search engines.

RayAllen3422 · 03/09/2016, 01:36 PM

On this topic. One thing that helps me is that the search function within Reef Central is often confusing and doesn't exactly get me what I am looking for so I will search on Google "Nitrogen Cycle Reef Central". Adding reef central to the end lists all the threads about that topic and the search function seems to work better in Google than through RC. Hope this helps.

Sk8r · 03/09/2016, 01:44 PM

good tip.
RC's search is often overburdened. We can't compete with the Big Engines, and they CAN help you a lot. I'm always amused when Google routes me right back here to one of my own posts on a topic.

Happyschneider · 03/09/2016, 02:25 PM

If you use site:www.domain.com you can tell Google to just give you results from a certain domain. Might help if you know it was on rc but forum search would not find it.

AquaFrenzy · 03/09/2016, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by RayAllen3422

On this topic. One thing that helps me is that the search function within Reef Central is often confusing and doesn't exactly get me what I am looking for so I will search on Google "Nitrogen Cycle Reef Central". Adding reef central to the end lists all the threads about that topic and the search function seems to work better in Google than through RC. Hope this helps.

I do this as well, everything I search I add Reef Central to it

BrianKC · 03/09/2016, 08:17 PM

If you're trying to ID stuff...go to images.google.com and type the best descriptors you have.

For example; a very common question is "what is this crab????" Go to images.google.com and type crab hairy legs black tip claws. Boom. Gorilla Crab.

03/09/2016, 01:33 PM	#1
Sk8r RC Mod Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 34,628 Blog Entries: 55	The Virtues of Internet Search... Quite often if you will simply set your search on your browser, spell carefully, try it with scientific names as well as common, and use more than one browser, you can find pix and very detailed descriptions of various fish, inverts, diseases, parasites, algaes, and problems that you run into. You ask why we mods know stuff. We don't always know stuff. And we don't always stay at Holiday Inn...But we do know how to use our search engines. __________________ Sk8r Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%.

03/09/2016, 01:36 PM	#2
RayAllen3422 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Winchester, VA Posts: 403	The Virtues of Internet Search... On this topic. One thing that helps me is that the search function within Reef Central is often confusing and doesn't exactly get me what I am looking for so I will search on Google "Nitrogen Cycle Reef Central". Adding reef central to the end lists all the threads about that topic and the search function seems to work better in Google than through RC. Hope this helps.

03/09/2016, 01:44 PM	#3
Sk8r RC Mod Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 34,628 Blog Entries: 55	good tip. RC's search is often overburdened. We can't compete with the Big Engines, and they CAN help you a lot. I'm always amused when Google routes me right back here to one of my own posts on a topic. __________________ Sk8r Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%.

03/09/2016, 02:25 PM	#4
Happyschneider Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Basel, Switzerland Posts: 350	If you use site:www.domain.com you can tell Google to just give you results from a certain domain. Might help if you know it was on rc but forum search would not find it. __________________ My build thread: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2517452 180 liter, sumpless reef, no skimmer for the moment. Current Tank Info: Juwel VISION 180, currently only invertebrates, planning to have low bioload as I have no skimmer and no refugium for the moment.

03/09/2016, 08:17 PM	#6
BrianKC Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Kansas City Posts: 388	If you're trying to ID stuff...go to images.google.com and type the best descriptors you have. For example; a very common question is "what is this crab????" Go to images.google.com and type crab hairy legs black tip claws. Boom. Gorilla Crab.