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<blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 2814703" data-attributes="member: 1264">Ok, here's the long version:First of all, you want to narrow down your search to enworld pages, using either &quot;site:www.enworld.org&quot;, or &quot;site:enworld.cyberstreet.com&quot; in the search (try both - they may have different pages cached).Next, make sure to click the &quot;repeat the search with the omitted results included&quot; link at the bottom, if one appears - we want all of those slightly differnt versions.You should now have a bunch of different links. Not all of these will actually be for the thread you're looking for. For example, some may be for the higher-level forum which merely lists the name of your thread. If you search wasn't specific enough, surround the thread title in quotes (make sure you have the *exact* name of the thread, though).Now the fun part: where oh where is that page you're looking for? You could simply click on each of the cached pages in turn, and check (1) what page of the thread it links to, and (2) what the date is on the last post in there. Often though you can tell from the url what you're looking for. In particular, you want to look out for anything like this:.../index.php/t-155697-p-3.html .../showthread.php?t=155697&amp;page=3&nbsp;-&gt; both of these indicate page 3 in thread #155697. Based on the pages I've been able to dig up so far today, it seems like Google may only cache up to page 10 like this.../showthread.php?goto=lastpost&amp;t=155697.../showthread.php?goto=newpost&amp;t=155697&nbsp;-&gt; these will typically contain the *last* page of the thread, and is your best bet for finding the most recent material.Most of this stuff holds for the other search engines as well. Apart for Google, <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/" target="_blank">Yahoo Search</a> has proven useful as well. <a href="http://search.msn.com" target="_blank">MSN Search</a> also has cached pages, but seems much more limited. I'd love to hear about other good search engines to use this trick on...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Conaill, post: 2814703, member: 1264"] Ok, here's the long version: First of all, you want to narrow down your search to enworld pages, using either "site:www.enworld.org", or "site:enworld.cyberstreet.com" in the search (try both - they may have different pages cached). Next, make sure to click the "repeat the search with the omitted results included" link at the bottom, if one appears - we [i]want[/i] all of those slightly differnt versions. You should now have a bunch of different links. Not all of these will actually be for the thread you're looking for. For example, some may be for the higher-level forum which merely lists the name of your thread. If you search wasn't specific enough, surround the thread title in quotes (make sure you have the *exact* name of the thread, though). Now the fun part: where oh where is that page you're looking for? You could simply click on each of the cached pages in turn, and check (1) what page of the thread it links to, and (2) what the date is on the last post in there. Often though you can tell from the url what you're looking for. In particular, you want to look out for anything like this: .../index.php/t-155697-p-3.html .../showthread.php?t=155697&page=3 -> both of these indicate page 3 in thread #155697. Based on the pages I've been able to dig up so far today, it seems like Google may only cache up to page 10 like this .../showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=155697 .../showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=155697 -> these will typically contain the *last* page of the thread, and is your best bet for finding the most recent material. Most of this stuff holds for the other search engines as well. Apart for Google, [url=http://search.yahoo.com/]Yahoo Search[/url] has proven useful as well. [url=http://search.msn.com]MSN Search[/url] also has cached pages, but seems much more limited. I'd love to hear about other good search engines to use this trick on... [/QUOTE]

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