Subject: ---- Square Brackets - Why they're useful ----
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---- Square Brackets - Why they're useful ----

When travelling to new countries this site is very useful for finding information.  There is a lot of info on the site to wade through but bro's who took the time to use square brackets make it easy.

For example, click on Search, then enter [Philippines] into the keywords section.  Go ahead and try.  If you just enter Philippines without the square brackets you would have a lot more results, but that may include reports that just reference the Philippines.  Try [New York], or [Pattaya]

CunningLinguist made a great introduction to this technique which is referenced in the sticky above.  

One thing that breaks the system is combining - for example [Philippines, Manila] would not be returned by that search.  If I just used one bracket in the search [Philippines  they would be included, but of course [Manila, Philippines] would not.  Also [NYC] would be skipped in a search for [New York].  Best just follow the convention [Country] [City].  Note we usually don't index districts like provinces, prefectures or states although some people add cities in large metropolis, such as [USA] [New York] [Manhatten].

For more info please see the sticky above which contains a link to How to Correctly Format your Subject Line with Brackets

edit: typos, remove broken link

[ Last edited by  yazoo at 4-1-2015 10:17 ]

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JackTheBat   2-11-2013 01:59  Karma  +10   
lefeu   29-10-2013 13:39  Acceptance  +4   Excellent idea! love the search feature
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