How do I search for old Fark articles?
We now have a headline search feature. Just enter some words out of the headline and it’ll find everything that matches. TotalFark subscribers can search redlit links too. Only headlines are searchable. We have no plans to make comments searchable. Search terms can be individual words, a double-quoted phrase, or you can build combinations using parentheses and boolean operators. A plus sign in front of a word means the word must appear in the results, a minus means it must not. Common words like “and” and “the” are ignored. In general, it works pretty much like Google does. Searches can be limited to specific topic tags, dates, or URL’s by using search terms like +topic:amusing +date:2007-02-14 +url:google.com. Those are the only three fields currently searchable like that, though. Ranges of dates are not yet supported, but will be in the future. Sorting results by date is also planned for the near future. For the advanced users wanting tips on more obscure search syntax, the query lan
