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I think there are lots of ways to search for technical documentation, and I find DDG great to use when I'm looking for language documentation. I use these feat
by hardwaresofton 11y ago
I think there are lots of ways to search for technical documentation, and I find DDG great to use when I'm looking for language documentation.
I use these features very frequently
!javadoc SomeJDKClass
!npm some-npm-module
!ruby some-stdlib-package
Amongst others. There's always the extremely useful "!so" if you want to skip google and go straight to the source you were going to click on anyway.
- rogerbinns 11y agoI use them for python stuff, but they aren't useful when you are looking for general information such as the example I gave. DDG is also problematic for some error messages again because they start de-emphasizing/discarding some of the terms, giving more general rather than specific results. Both DDG and Google trend towards SO answers anyway - no need to even ask for it!
- ino 11y agoBut google search is way better than stackoverflow search. And google shows similar but different enough stackoverflow answers, duckduckgo shows only one or sometimes two, many times not the one you're searching for.