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Old Feb 13, 2005 | 2:31 am
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Originally Posted by ScottC
Folks,

instead of complaining about missing the search function, have you considered that Google has pretty much all of FT indexed?

just enter your query there and add site:www.flyertalk.com

For example:

ORD-MKE site:www.flyertalk.com
Yes, I've used Google for this type of FlyerTalk search a number of times in the past.

It isn't quite as convenient as using the built-in FlyerTalk search function, but I wonder if the Google method actually gives better (more accurate, more complete) results. @:-)
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