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LAS14

(13,779 posts)
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 03:45 PM Jan 2019

What's the best way to find an original post of mine that is older than...

... a month (not in My Posts). I tried the Google search on LAS14, and it comes up with all sorts of posts that I answered. I tried LAS14 ( and got the same result.

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What's the best way to find an original post of mine that is older than... (Original Post) LAS14 Jan 2019 OP
Searching with: PoliticAverse Jan 2019 #1
That's the same result I got from putting LAS14 in the DU Google search field. LAS14 Jan 2019 #2
Use Advanced Search, and select the 'Original posts' option LeftishBrit Jan 2019 #3
You can also select a time frame question everything Jan 2019 #4
Important canetoad Jan 2019 #5

LAS14

(13,779 posts)
2. That's the same result I got from putting LAS14 in the DU Google search field.
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 03:55 PM
Jan 2019

It's a mix of OPs and replies, some from 2017 on the first result page. I scrolled through 3 or 4 pages and didn't find my 6 week old OP that I'm looking for. I wish there were a way to refine a Google search.

But just now I found what I was looking for. I used DU's advanced search, and put on OPs by LAS14 for last Nov and Dec. I hadn't even tried that, because it always ran out of processing time (at DU's end).

canetoad

(17,148 posts)
5. Important
Sat Jan 12, 2019, 05:45 AM
Jan 2019

If you copy/paste your own name into Advanced Search, make sure there isn't a space after your name in the search field.

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