jlrdw's avatar
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Searching Laravel Forum

I have noticed that the search on the forum does not get the results like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc, or at least not as many.

I have been suggesting to try and put Laravel first in a search. For example if you are doing a Google search, and wanted to search for customizing authentication (just an example), you could go to Google search and:

Laravel custom authentication
or
Laravel customizing authentication

// come up with other combination of words also.
// I.e.

Laravel username instead of email for authentication

That's just one example, the point, put the word Laravel first. Or if unique to eloquent, put eloquent first.

Another example:

laravel multi tenant application

Of course if Laravel is in the search, i.e., Another example:

ajax with laravel
or
jquery with laravel

etc

You will usually get many hits, but the ones I check first are ones from:

  • Of course here at Laracast
  • Stackoverflow
  • Medium
  • scotch.io

And others, just make sure it's a safe site.

Usually, depending on the search, there are quite a few from here.

I try myself to save some most asked, like setting up on shared host. I have a couple of good links saved for when I see that question come up.

And just my opinion here of an alternate way to find previous good answers on the forum.

There are just so many repeat questions that are asked often, especially Ajax, hosting, etc.

I hope this helps find common questions a little easier.

See cronix answer below for another technique.

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jlrdw's avatar
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This post was meant to show folks new here an alternate way of finding things on this forum.

Cronix's avatar

If you want to search a specific site in google, that's easy too. That's what I do to search laracasts. Search for "site:laracasts.com terms to search for". It will only show results from laracasts.com.

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