One of the reasons to use Faves.com is the ability to organize and find your Faves once you've created them. Faves.com search allows you to find your Faves, your friends Faves, or search Everyone's Faves. All the text in the title, the notes, and tags are indexed to help you find something (as of this writing, comments on your dots are not searchable). In addition, Faves.com supports some advanced search terms to help you narrow down your search by user, tag, rating, or web site:
Search for Faves rated with x stars:rating:
x (where
x is # 1-5)
Example: rating:5Search for all Faves with ratings from x to y stars:rating:
x-y (where
x and
y are #'s 1-5)
Example: rating:4-5Search Faves from a particular user:
user:
username
Example: user:mikeSearch Faves from two (or more) users:
user: user1 user:user2
Example: user:mike user:x
Search for a tag (single word):
tag:
tagExample:
tag:videoSearch for a tag containing spaces:
tag:"
the tag"
Example: tag:"video games"
Search for multiple tags:
tag:
tag1 tag:
tag2Example: tag:video tag:musicSearch for all Faves from a particular web site:
site: sitename.com
Example: site:www.youtube.com
Favelet:
Site Faves *
Show Faves for the current page:
Favelet:
Page Faves *
Any combination of above searches
Just put them one after the other, in any combination or order.
Example: rating:5 user:sung tag:movies tag:review
Google Search
Another way to search Faves.com is to use our
Faves.com Customized Search engine. You may find better results using Google as the results are sorted according to Google's ranking of popularity. Give it a try and let us know what you think.
* Favelet installation instructions:
Favelets are buttons you can place in yourbookmarks/links toolbar.
Firefox:
- Make sure your Bookmarks toolbar is visible (right click any toolbar and and make sure "Bookmarks Toolbar" is checked).
- Drag the link from the web page (above), and drop it in your Bookmarks Toolbar.
IE:
- Make sure your Links toolbar is visible (right click any toolbar and make sure "Links" is checked).
- Right click the favelet link from the web page, select "Add to Favorites" and Create in: Links, click Add.