January 20, 2006 by annegentle

A smart Google search to locate specifics in BMC’s tech docs

Here’s a method for searching BMC’s repository of technical documentation using Google

You can use Google’s site: search feature to look for technical documentation that’s stored on the www.bmc.com web site. Just add site:bmc.com/supportu/documents to any search string that you enter in Google, and the results that are returned are only from the BMC web site in the directory where technical documentation is stored. It’s even doing full text-search within the PDF files, so it’s quite useful. Here’s a sample search string. Just enter it in the Google Search field.

smtp site:bmc.com/supportu/documents

Any other favorite Google search tips and tricks? My favorite collection of them is on the O’Reilly site, related to the Google Hacks book. My most used feature that Google offers has to be the automatic spelling correction it does on search strings. How about you? Any favorite Google features you’ve discovered?

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