Text search on Vox
Have you ever tried to find something on your own blog (or a Vox neighbor's) and wished there was an easier way to locate it? Sure, you can search by tags, but there are times when a more expansive text search would be helpful. For example, if I was thinking of posting a quotation to my blog and wondered if I had already posted it at some time in the past (my memory isn't what it once was), I could type the following in the search box at Google:
"Time is too slow for those who wait" site:redpen.vox.com
If I wanted to know if anyone on Vox had posted that phrase before, I could change it to this:
"Time is too slow for those who wait" site:vox.com
This is also helpful if you want to find people who have a particular book (or other type of media) in their library. (I've tried using "Who Voxed this?" on a few occasions, but it seems to be limited to a particular period of time.)
Book: Anansi Boys site:vox.com
This search strategy is by no means perfect, and you'll get some repetitive and erroneous results, but I've found it helpful and hope you will, too.
Comments
This is a good alternative, even if it's not perfect. Thanks for posting :-)