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On Tue, 15 Jul 2014, Adrian Midgley wrote:
What's a more clever way to find the page which has the form, or the link to the form, in a website of many pages than reading each page?
you could use the advanced search page of a search engine. for example, ixquick's... https://ixquick.com/eng/advanced-search.html and then, just to pick some exotic example, if you were looking for form 1040 at the US internal revenue service's website, you might fill out the search form like so: | Advanced Search Tips | with all the words 1040________________ | with the exact phrase ____________________ | with at least one of the words ____________________ | without the words ____________________ | with text in the [spacer.gif] [url__] .pdf________________ | at this domain name irs.gov_____________ | with links to this domain name ____________________ | sort by [relevance] | At this type of domain name [any__] on ixquick this example seemed to work perfectly. (though a search in identical terms on startpage, ixquick's google scraper, came up empty, which is weird.) the "with text in the url" option is useful (obviously), if you know the name of a relevant directory, or if you're looking for a pdf or something. you can, i think, request the same search through a non-advanced, one-liner, search form by querying: url:".pdf" host:irs.gov +1040 pretty sure they amount to the same thing. hth. -wes -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq