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If I want to search the site for any of the following, Integrity Initiative, the 77th Brigade, Bellingcat, or the Atlantic Council, every post is returned as a result. This is because they are mentioned in the footer by default. I wonder could a solution be found so that only posts where these words or phrases are contained in the body of the post can be returned ? Thanks
John, sorry I’ve taken so long, and sorry to say that we haven’t come up with a simple solution. If the problematic section was a separate footer it wouldn’t be interfering with your search, but it has been pasted into the main body of a large number of pages. They’d need to be edited out, which would be a great deal of work.
However, I do have a suggestion that might work, which is to try Google’s “Advanced Search”, using the UK Google search page rather than the international one:
https://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search
Note the “.co.uk” rather than “.com”. I have had better results searching Craig’s site using this page.
The advanced search has a field to specify words to exclude from the returned results, so try putting an unusual word from the problematic section in there. Maybe try ‘adversaries’? You could even try ‘Brigade’ and ‘Atlantic’, one at a time, to return results for the other. Maybe a phrase would work. Maybe quote marks specify a phrase in that field. You’ll have to experiment.
Sorry, I’m not going to try this myself as I’m on a train using an Android device which I find inconvenient for typing.
Best wishes and Good luck!
