Sure, you can search for someone by name, or search on a location, or an event, or something similarly mundane. You know, like they do in nursing homes.

OR you can search by NUMBER.

Let me explain…

Actually, what I’m talking about is a trick for searching headlines on Daylife. It works with ANY term, though we’ll focus on numbers for now (as you’ll see, they give interesting, semi-random results). For an example, we’ll need some set of numbers. Say, those of the Valenzetti Equation, known to many, many frustrated Lost viewers as ‘The Numbers.’ (If you haven’t yet heard, here’s what they mean. Sort of.)

How it works:

Just type “title:[search term]” – with or without the quotation marks – and you’ll see only results that include the term you put after the colon. So:

title:4
title:8
title:15
title:16
title:23
title:42

…will bring back ONLY stories with those numbers in their headlines. And it makes for some fun, mixed-nut results.

Numbers are fun axis points when you want to see a batch of odds and ends, but this trick also works when you want to get specific. Again, it’s really just a way to search headlines, and the stories they, uh, headline. It works with any term, for instance:

title:Lost AND title:ABC

…brings back only stories about ABC’s “Lost.” (The good news: it WILL have an ending.)

That last example is a way to search for multiple terms in the *headline* of a story, but if you want to search for, say, a headline with “Lost” on an article that contains “ABC,” you’d format the search term like so:

title:Lost ABC

It’s a handy trick. Play around with it, and if you come up with an especially good search string, post it in the comments.

ALSO: there are party pics of the pretty, pretty Lost cast over in Red Carpet.