err (starts discussing with self, never a good sign!) ... I typed the above, did a quick demo google for the link & thought no more about it ... but then I decided to use the technique I'd just explained to search for something else & it didn't work.
Playing around a bit further, it looks to me that the google search is returning very patchy results too ... the example I used works fine but loads of others don't (some being very old posts, some being very new, so no apparent pattern). It does look like it will find any text in this area of the forum (announcements & queries) but not in most others ...
Maybe Ronald has - by accident or design - exluded large parts of the forum from being indexed by google (rather than just the Circolo di Conversazione, which I know is purposely excluded). Over to Ronald ....
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