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Try Stackexchange search, it never gets you what you are looking for, they are just using some kind of Elastic Search. I think Google instead indexes SO pages
by csantini 11y ago
Try Stackexchange search, it never gets you what you are looking for, they are just using some kind of Elastic Search.
I think Google instead indexes SO pages as any html, and does a much better job at figuring out what "unzip .bz2" means.
- forgotpwtomain 11y agoGoogle ignores special characters though - that makes it really hard to search for some things.
- zuck9 11y agoNot always. Since a year or two, I'm seeing they take into account many special characters: https://www.google.com/search?q= https://www.google.com/search?q=. https://www.google.com/search?q=.bz2 https://www.google.com/search?q=.bz2 and https://www.google.com/search?q=bz2 https://www.google.com/search?q=bz2 are different, for instance.
- chatmasta 11y agoI think google flags accounts as programmers and treats their searches differently. If I'm logged out of Google, searching for programming questions sometimes leads to sites on completely unrelated topics. Whereas when I'm logged into my account, from which 99% of my searches are programming intensive, I get all relevant programming results.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoGoogle does this with all areas of interest. Politics, knitting, cat videos, programming etc. Sometimes it is useful sometimes it will re-enforce an echo chamber effect.