Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Fw: Update from Riderwood Village

[Linda Hobbet (coho]

Hi Sharon,

Someone probably sent this tip already, but just in case. You can narrow 
the search on most platforms by putting Jean Smart in quotes, "Jean 
Smart", which should exclude the items with Jean or Smart by themselves. 
If you searched on "Jean Smart" plus a keyword or two from the title, it 
should limit the results a lot. Or the title in quotes.

Yours,
Linda Hobbet

On 4/12/2026 5:56 PM, Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L wrote:
> > On Apr 12, 2026, at 4:16 PM, Katie Henry <katie-henry [at] att.net> wrote:
> > My biggest concern is that you can't search across subgroups. I'm sure there's 
> > important information buried in some long-dead subgroup that we will never be 
> > able to recover.
> On Groups.io these can be imported to each other to save the messages and still 
> be able to search them more easily.
>
> Searching is a problem with all the data on everything. I was using the local public library today to find a 
> book narrated or performed by Jean Smart. A search on Jean Smart returned tons of titles — any book 
> recrod that contained “Jean" or “Smart”. Even when I limited the search to book title, 
> I got a long messy list. The same thing is happening at Amazon. The maintenance is not being done.
>
> I’ve started using Perplexity which is better at narrowing down searches.
>
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Riderwood Village, Silver Spring MD
> Founding member and 25 year resident in Takoma Village, Washington DC
>
>
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