>As the .Net forums grow they will suffer from the handicap that there will be a much smaller searchable archive for them to start off from.
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>To encourage people to choose UT as their first port of call maybe the search archive facility should have the option to allow the search to be extended to other locations on the web.
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>The Microsoft knowledge base would be an obvious candidate.
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>I may be asking for the moon here because I have no idea how easy this would be to achieve, I just know that for my own purposes it would be very useful.
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>I tend to always try a search on UT first because its archive is in English rather than Microsoftese. If I get no joy in that location I then go and wade through the knowledge base. It would be nice to do everything in one operation.

Yes, we can do some research.