{"id":38654,"date":"2025-09-18T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/?p=38654"},"modified":"2026-05-03T10:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:57:38","slug":"search-andy-lin-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2025\/09\/18\/search-andy-lin-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful full-text search Andy Lin website is now online"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a new upgrade full-text search Andy Lin website feature announcement!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_83 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #ffffff;color:#ffffff\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #ffffff;color:#ffffff\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2025\/09\/18\/search-andy-lin-website\/#Andy_Lin_Website_Content\" >Andy Lin Website Content<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2025\/09\/18\/search-andy-lin-website\/#Features_Upgraded\" >Features Upgraded<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2025\/09\/18\/search-andy-lin-website\/#How_to_Use\" >How to Use<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2025\/09\/18\/search-andy-lin-website\/#Related_articles\" >Related articles<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Andy_Lin_Website_Content\"><\/span>Andy Lin Website Content<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/us\/\">Andy Lin Website<\/a>&#8221; refers to Andy&#8217;s personal website, the whole site host on a third party host site, granitefirm.com, which includes the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What you are currently viewing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/\">Andy Lin&#8217;s Long-term Stock Investment Blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I have developed a set of essential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/us\/tools\/\">free online investment tools for US stock investors<\/a>, including tools for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/us\/tools\/taiex\/\">querying the historical weighted index and annualized returns of the Taiwan Stock Exchange<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/us\/tools\/sp500\/\">S&amp;P 500&#8217;s annualized returns over any two years<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/us\/tools\/sp500\/\">the S&amp;P 500&#8217;s annualized returns for a single year<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/us\/tools\/dcf\/\">discounted cash flow (DCF) calculator<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/us\/tools\/sp500pe\/\">S&amp;P 500&#8217;s historical average price-to-earnings ratio<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/us\/tools\/irr\/\">Internal Rate of Return (IRR) <\/a>calculator, and nearly twenty other tools. For more information on these essential free online investment tools for US stock investors, please see my other post, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2024\/06\/23\/andys-free-tools\/\">Andy&#8217;s free tools developed for US stock investment<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/us\/investing\/reference\/stocksite.html\">Highly recommended US stock websites<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/us\/investing\/reference\/legendbooks.html\">recommendations for classic US stock investment books<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/us\/investing\/reference\/morelegendbooks.html\">other US stock investment book recommendations<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/us\/me\/\">Andy&#8217;s experience<\/a>, a list of all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/us\/investing\/publish\/books_published.html\">investment books he&#8217;s published over the years<\/a>, and all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/us\/software\/publish\/computer_books_published.html\">computer books Andy published before<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Contact Andy Lin at  <a href=\"https:\/\/granitefirm.com\/us\/feedback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2709 Contact Us<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Features_Upgraded\"><\/span>Features Upgraded<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I previously used a home-grown program, its functionality was limited and didn&#8217;t include blog article search, the user experience was indeed poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, with the publication of my third book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2025\/08\/26\/investors-beautiful-heaven\/\">Investors Beautiful Heaven&#8221;<\/a>&#8221; readers mentioned that in addition to the blog search function already available on the homepage of my Blog, they also requested a more user-friendly &#8220;full-text search function for Andy Lin&#8217;s website, the whole site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, <strong><em>I rewrote Andy Lin website content full-text search function to search everything in my entire website &#8211; including all the articles in the blog<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_Use\"><\/span>How to Use<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The steps are easy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/\">here to visit Andy Lin&#8217;s website<\/a> (https:\/\/granitefirm.com\/)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As shown below, enter your search term in the search box in the upper right corner of the homepage. Click the magnifying glass icon on the right side to start your search.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"212\" height=\"107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/home_page_search.jpg\" alt=\"search Andy Lin website\" class=\"wp-image-38656\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Then you will immediately see the search results appear on the screen as below. 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Please resend your message<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2025\/08\/04\/how-to-contact-andy-lin\/\">Why blog turns off comment? how to contact Andy Lin?<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2025\/08\/26\/investors-beautiful-heaven\/\">Andy Lin&#8217;s third US stock book &#8220;Investors Beautiful Heaven&#8221;, ship worldwide, free shipping to Taiwan<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2022\/09\/27\/the-rules-of-10-baggers\/\">Andy Lin&#8217;s second US stock book released &#8220;The Rules of 10 Baggers&#8221;, ship worldwide, free shipping to Taiwan<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2023\/12\/31\/the-rules-of-super-growth-stocks-investing-my-first-us-stock-book-ship-worldwide-free-shipping-to-taiwan\/\">&#8220;Andy Lin&#8217;s first US stock book &#8220;The Rules of Super Growth Stocks Investing&#8221;, ship worldwide, free shipping to Taiwan<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2025\/02\/24\/andy-lin-investment-style\/\">The key points of Andy Lin investment style<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2024\/09\/26\/long-term-investment-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Andy Lin&#8217;s long-term investment experience sharing<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/granitefirm.com\/us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Andy Indices will be daily updated on the homepage<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2022\/06\/14\/simplified-chinese\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blog supports Simplified Chinese auto display<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2021\/09\/18\/english-website-and-blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">English version of the website and blog are online<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2022\/04\/29\/top-10-read-articles\/\">The First Anniversary Review: Top 10 read articles in Andy Lin&#8217;s blog<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2023\/05\/01\/second-anniversary\/\">The Second Anniversary Review: Top 10 read articles in Andy Lin&#8217;s blog<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2024\/05\/09\/third-anniversary-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Third Anniversary Review: Top 20 read articles in Andy Lin&#8217;s blog<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2025\/05\/01\/fourth-anniversary-blog\/\">The Fourth Anniversary Review: Top 20 read articles in Andy Lin&#8217;s blog<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2026\/05\/02\/fifth-anniversary-review\/\">The Fifth Anniversary Review: Top 20 read articles in Andy Lin&#8217;s blog<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.granitefirm.com\/blog\/us\/2022\/09\/27\/the-rules-of-10-baggers-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Rules of 10 Baggers book release event and speech, Taipei (1:00~2:00 pm, 10\/16\/2022)<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>The content of this site is the author\u2019s personal opinions and is for reference only. 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