Help:Searching the ISFDB with an outside search engine

Several general search engines, such as Google index some or all of the ISFDB's content. You can search the ISFDB by using one of these search engines. In general, such engines have a more sophisticated and powerful set of search capabilities, but they will not know anything about the detailed organization of the ISFDB's data. Furthermore, the captured indicies on which a search engine operates are likely to be some time out of date, probably anywhere from several days to several weeks, depending on when the engine last indexed (crawled) the ISFDB site. And depending on the precise methods that a particular engine uses, it may not index all records in the ISFDB in any case. On the other hand, an engine will index fields, such as the notes field, not directly searched by the ISFDB's web interface.