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Searching SO via google works great, but their native search kinda blows: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=rails+has_and_belongs_to_many http://stackoverflow.
by klochner 16y ago
Searching SO via google works great, but their native search kinda blows:
http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=rails+has_and_belongs_to_many http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=rails+has_and_belongs_to_m...
http://www.google.com/search?q=rails+has_and_belongs_to_many+site%3Astackoverflow.com http://www.google.com/search?q=rails+has_and_belongs_to_many...
- cruise02 16y agoThis is true. Luckily Google aggressively crawls and indexes SO, so that really is the preferred way to search the site. I've seen results in Google for questions that were posted 10 minutes earlier.
- chime 16y agoI don't know why more sites don't use Google's Ajax API and instead waste resources on making really bad search engines. Sure, users get more features if you roll your own engine (sort-by-hotness, hide self-posts etc.) but what users want are good results, not features. I wish reddit, HN, and SO used Google's Ajax. I made a very simple JS/CSS tool to add a Google search box to any site: http://chir.ag/projects/drop-search/ http://chir.ag/projects/drop-search/ - I use it on my blog and it works pretty well.