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This is probably a 10-50x fewer searches than I do in a week. I am assuming there are many searches left out. I'd be interested in seeing how the OP tweaks thei
by harrisonjackson 7y ago
This is probably a 10-50x fewer searches than I do in a week. I am assuming there are many searches left out. I'd be interested in seeing how the OP tweaks their searches as the results don't return exactly what they want.
Here is an actual single search progression for me (In reverse order because copy/pasta :shrug:
react context optimize rerender "props.children"
react context optimize rerender
react usereducer dispatch async
react usereducer dispatch api
usecontext usememo
optimize usecontext react
usereducer rerender usecontext
usereducer rerender
when to use usereducer
react hooks usecontext and usereducer
This is a fairly simple search, too - no use of negative search terms and minimal use of phrase matching. I didn't see any of those enhancements used in the OP which seems odd.
edit - formatting
- dajohnson89 7y agocould you give an example of a complex search? I've never bothered using advanced Google search patterns
- anaphor 7y ago`site:stackoverflow.com ruby hash dig` would be an example Edit: also `site:stackoverflow.com ruby "Hash#dig"` if you wanted an exact match, etc..
- ma2rten 7y agoI personally just use "site", "inurl" and the minus sign. Example: site:news.ycombinator.com -inurl:item google operators
- harrisonjackson 7y agoDid not know about inurl - very cool! Thanks
- safeplanet-fesa 7y agoI use "inurl:ycombinator", saves even more time when typing manually.
- collinmanderson 7y agoyou could also do: site:news.ycombinator.com -site:news.ycombinator.com/item
- harrisonjackson 7y agoIt is pretty dependent on what the search results look like after the first search. In the above example, I would probably filter out results having to do with other react hooks so adding `-useState` would help accomplish that. If I am googling specific syntax or an error log, then wrapping it in quotes will do a phrase match and filter out results that don't contain the phrase. I don't use the `site:` search pattern because just adding `github` does a good enough job and Another pattern I use is `filetype:pdf` :thinking: and lastly I nearly always use the tools to filter by results within the past year. That does an okay job filtering out older documentation, tutorials, articles etc
- davidjnelson 7y agoVerbatim word match: “word” Verbatim phrase match: “some phrase” Verbatim word negation: -“word” Verbatim phrase negation: -“some phrase”