+Midnight Ramblers Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 I'm after advice please as I must be doing something wrong. I want to find all caches with the word 'cow' in the name. If I do a keyword search for 'cow' it brings back two results, both in the US called 'Cow'. It does not return 'Cow Tale' in the UK. A search on 'cow tale' brings back the UK cache mentioned successfully. Am I doing something stupid? Quote Link to comment
+cakemaker Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 It's strange! I've just tried and got the same as you. I found a couple more in the UK under 'cows' if that helps at all! Quote Link to comment
+Birdman-of-liskatraz Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 Humm tis odd... cow! brings up a whole pageful.. and I can't find any helpful search instructions anywhere Quote Link to comment
+t.a.folk Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 We get the pages of results if we have a space before the word cow . Quote Link to comment
+scottpa100 Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 I typed this into google, it may help you with your search cow gc* "united kingdom" site:www.geocaching.com Breaking it down what is asking Google to do is look for a web page with the word cow on it and something else on the same web page preceding with GC. GC is a geocache waypoint and stops all the travel bugs with cow(s) from appearing. On the same web page, look for the words United Kingdom together as phrase (to try and ensure caches from the UK come up. The search is restricted to the website www.geocaching.com It may help you or it could have just gone a whole lot more confusing!! Quote Link to comment
+Birdman-of-liskatraz Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 I typed this into google, it may help you with your search cow gc* "united kingdom" site:www.geocaching.com Breaking it down what is asking Google to do is look for a web page with the word cow on it and something else on the same web page preceding with GC. GC is a geocache waypoint and stops all the travel bugs with cow(s) from appearing. On the same web page, look for the words United Kingdom together as phrase (to try and ensure caches from the UK come up. The search is restricted to the website www.geocaching.com It may help you or it could have just gone a whole lot more confusing!! But that produces all the caches with a log that mentions cow as well.. which is hundreds. Quote Link to comment
Nediam Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 I just had a quick go with Geocache UK and got this result. Any use? Quote Link to comment
+Midnight Ramblers Posted May 7, 2007 Author Share Posted May 7, 2007 Fantastic - what a helpful bunch you are - many thanks. Quote Link to comment
+scottpa100 Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 I typed this into google, it may help you with your search cow gc* "united kingdom" site:www.geocaching.com Breaking it down what is asking Google to do is look for a web page with the word cow on it and something else on the same web page preceding with GC. GC is a geocache waypoint and stops all the travel bugs with cow(s) from appearing. On the same web page, look for the words United Kingdom together as phrase (to try and ensure caches from the UK come up. The search is restricted to the website www.geocaching.com It may help you or it could have just gone a whole lot more confusing!! But that produces all the caches with a log that mentions cow as well.. which is hundreds. Yeah, fair point. But its less than the thousands of caches that have been placed within the UK! I've tried to improve the query but... no success really. Perhaps some uber Google nerd out there might be able to advise further. Quote Link to comment
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