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Posted by Andy Brown on 23 July 2020
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New search feature
We've reinstated our search box, but with a big difference - it now returns useful results! Here's a quick tutorial in how to use this, using the example of someone wanting information on scraping websites in VBA.
This isn't a random choice - for some reason, it's our single most popular blog, and close to our most popular page.
To start with, type your search phrase into the search box:
Type into the search box the thing you want to find, and click on the GO button.
Click on one of the headings which appears:
This search returned 5 pages about our courses, 9 video tutorials and one blog page.
You can then click on any page to visit it:
This person is about to visit a blog page about scraping websites in VBA.
Only pages with a relevance of 400 or above are shown (or for training pages, 200 and above). If anyone is interested, our search facility uses the SQL Server FREETEXTTABLE function as its engine.