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When I search for anything programming-related on Google, I realize how many different meanings a word can have. Adding more words to specify context sometimes even makes it worse and it often makes results more unspecific and unrelated. And when I find something that exactly matches my case, it's an unresolved question from 2017 or 2006.

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  • 0
    2y
    .....and how obvious the solutions seems in hindsight!
  • 1
    2y
    + it's now 8 p.m. when it should be 8 a.m.

    Can I please rewind time? I deserve it. Bill it to the time account of those who can't properly document their software or to their bosses who don't give them proper time and priority to do so.
  • 2
    2y
    I noticed a while ago that tech searches got worse on google. I started using DDG (which uses Bing) and I could find things easier again.
  • 1
    2y
    @Demolishun even my mom noticed that
  • 1
    2y
    @electrineer now I use like 3 or 4 search engines to find things. Seems like some are better than others for things.
  • 0
    2y
    My favourite example so far is c-string
  • 2
    2y
    I remember early on that you could use logical operators in Google. Is that still a thing?

    You could do this:

    webcam -porn

    It would eliminate all porn shit.
  • 1
    2y
    @Demolishun Google interprets all operators liberally including "verbatim", but yeah you can advise with a leading dash that you would like to assign a negative score to a keyword.
  • 1
    2y
    @Demolishun reminds me of answers to people requesting google image search without any pinterest and stock photos, ending up recommending a long search prompt with about 50 minus terms
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