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It's always a shame that W3Schools comes up before literally any other reference, notably MDN. I've always attributed it to their SEO efforts.

admax88q 6y ago
W3Schools and now TutorialsPoint. While they're not bad per say, they;re never detailed enough of a reference. 99% of my webdev searches are now "mdn <topic>" as MDN is typically the most detailed resource on the topic (short of reading the exhaustingly verbose standards). Of course now that I search "mdn <topic>" for everything I'm not training google's engine to match <topic> with the mdn resource, which helps cement w3schools as the top result for the topic
- Jestar342 6y ago
  > !mdn <term> is the greatest tool of ddg. Hundreds of search shortcuts available as "bangs"
  - t0astbread 6y ago
    If you're using Firefox you can also go to MDN, right click the search box and click "Add a Keyword for this Search...". It's (almost) like a DDG Bang but local to your browser (and for me it's a lot faster too). It gets even more crazy once you realize Firefox is just saving a bookmark with a form submission template and you can make forms that "send" GET requests to data URIs and if you combine that with the keyword search you can run tiny web apps from your bookmarks using "commands" in your omnibar!
    - Jestar342 6y ago
      My default engine is already set to DDG anyway, so I can just !bang in the addressbar already.
    - admax88q 6y ago
      I find the ddg search results load faster and are better indexed than the MDN built-in search, same goes for most sites that do their own indexing and are also indexed on big search engines.
  - SahAssar 6y ago
    In my experience the search on MDN sucks, and I usually get much better MDN results by searching for "mdn <searchterm>" on DDG than I get for "<searchterm>" on mdn.
Lorin 6y ago
I use an extension aptly called 'Remove W3Schools' - I'll give you one guess as to what it does.

admax88q 6y ago

W3Schools and now TutorialsPoint. While they're not bad per say, they;re never detailed enough of a reference. 99% of my webdev searches are now "mdn <topic>" as MDN is typically the most detailed resource on the topic (short of reading the exhaustingly verbose standards). Of course now that I search "mdn <topic>" for everything I'm not training google's engine to match <topic> with the mdn resource, which helps cement w3schools as the top result for the topic

Jestar342 6y ago
> !mdn <term> is the greatest tool of ddg. Hundreds of search shortcuts available as "bangs"
- t0astbread 6y ago
  If you're using Firefox you can also go to MDN, right click the search box and click "Add a Keyword for this Search...". It's (almost) like a DDG Bang but local to your browser (and for me it's a lot faster too). It gets even more crazy once you realize Firefox is just saving a bookmark with a form submission template and you can make forms that "send" GET requests to data URIs and if you combine that with the keyword search you can run tiny web apps from your bookmarks using "commands" in your omnibar!
  - Jestar342 6y ago
    My default engine is already set to DDG anyway, so I can just !bang in the addressbar already.
  - admax88q 6y ago
    I find the ddg search results load faster and are better indexed than the MDN built-in search, same goes for most sites that do their own indexing and are also indexed on big search engines.
- SahAssar 6y ago
  In my experience the search on MDN sucks, and I usually get much better MDN results by searching for "mdn <searchterm>" on DDG than I get for "<searchterm>" on mdn.

Lorin 6y ago

I use an extension aptly called 'Remove W3Schools' - I'll give you one guess as to what it does.