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Searching the site - in ten different ways.
By Dabitch
Created Sep 16 2007 - 12:48

Quite a few adgrunts who grew accustomed to our previous search are wigged out by the new one which acts a little different. Here are som tips to let you play with new ways of searching the sites mass of content.

Let say, you're looking for Nike ads. Using the search box underneath the telly up on the right (or go straight to advanced search [1] type in Nike and get the results.

But perhaps you like images. Then simply use the image search [2] which will return results of all posts including images.

Maybe you only want to see commercials in your results - use the commercials only image search [3] which will bring your results back with the leading screnshot attached, this makes it easier to find the ad you are looking for with fewer search terms.

But lets say you want to view any sports gear ads, you can simply browse
the topic of sports gear ads like so:
http://commercial-archive.com/taxonomy/term/42 [4]

(all topics can be seen here: http://commercial-archive.com/tagadelic [5] )

If all else fails, you an turn to the google-search box which is also on
the right hand side right above that T-shirt image.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Nike&sitesearch=commercial-archive.com [6]

If you're in a browsy mood you can also stroll through the archives sorted
by month and year:
http://commercial-archive.com/monthlyarchive [7]

There's an alternative archive with screendumps and all posts here:
http://commercial-archive.com/archive [8]

I hope that helps you find what you want, the way you want. :)


Source URL: http://commercial-archive.com/node/139941

Links:
[1] http://commercial-archive.com/search
[2] http://commercial-archive.com/search/images?
[3] http://commercial-archive.com/search/commercials?
[4] http://commercial-archive.com/taxonomy/term/42
[5] http://commercial-archive.com/tagadelic
[6] http://www.google.com/search?q=Nike&sitesearch=commercial-archive.com
[7] http://commercial-archive.com/monthlyarchive
[8] http://commercial-archive.com/archive