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Have you considered that there may not actually be any good results for the exact phrase "gulp admzip"? Especially considering "admzip" is a misspelling as you

by Drew_ 5y ago

Have you considered that there may not actually be any good results for the exact phrase "gulp admzip"? Especially considering "admzip" is a misspelling as you admit?

horsawlarway 5y ago
Not getting results back is GOOD! That's meaningful feedback that my search needs to be improved. Getting all spam back is actually ALSO GOOD! I can visually distinguish spam pretty quickly, and it's also meaningful feedback that my search needs to be improved. Removing my ability to search for exact phrases is fucking BAD! I'd much rather get spam or nothing when I search for a directly quoted phrase, rather than google just start returning bullshit. The problem is that the bullshit google returns is actually very hard to visually parse out - they're real sites that get lots of views, those views are just ENTIRELY unrelated to what I'm actually searching for. That's really hard to filter out quickly.
usui 5y ago
> Especially considering "admzip" is a misspelling as you admit? I don't think this is true. A quick look at https://github.com/cthackers/adm-zip https://github.com/cthackers/adm-zip > var zip = new AdmZip("./my_file.zip"); It's entirely possible that a person could be querying the exact variable name "admzip" for a variety results that should only be code snippets of the by-convention "AdmZip" variable name with no concern for the package name "adm-zip", which, by the way, Google will interpret hyphens as just whitespace, so it's the equivalent of searching "adm zip". I know this could be a case because I do this kind of programmatic search all the time, and in fact I remember specifically searching the web for "AdmZip" and not "adm-zip" a few years ago. And if there are no good results for "AdmZip", that's fine! At least I can, at a glance, quickly know that there are not many code snippets across the web lying around with that conventional variable name.

by Drew_ 5y ago

Have you considered that there may not actually be any good results for the exact phrase "gulp admzip"? Especially considering "admzip" is a misspelling as you admit?

horsawlarway 5y ago

Not getting results back is GOOD! That's meaningful feedback that my search needs to be improved. Getting all spam back is actually ALSO GOOD! I can visually distinguish spam pretty quickly, and it's also meaningful feedback that my search needs to be improved. Removing my ability to search for exact phrases is fucking BAD! I'd much rather get spam or nothing when I search for a directly quoted phrase, rather than google just start returning bullshit. The problem is that the bullshit google returns is actually very hard to visually parse out - they're real sites that get lots of views, those views are just ENTIRELY unrelated to what I'm actually searching for. That's really hard to filter out quickly.

usui 5y ago

> Especially considering "admzip" is a misspelling as you admit? I don't think this is true. A quick look at https://github.com/cthackers/adm-zip https://github.com/cthackers/adm-zip > var zip = new AdmZip("./my_file.zip"); It's entirely possible that a person could be querying the exact variable name "admzip" for a variety results that should only be code snippets of the by-convention "AdmZip" variable name with no concern for the package name "adm-zip", which, by the way, Google will interpret hyphens as just whitespace, so it's the equivalent of searching "adm zip". I know this could be a case because I do this kind of programmatic search all the time, and in fact I remember specifically searching the web for "AdmZip" and not "adm-zip" a few years ago. And if there are no good results for "AdmZip", that's fine! At least I can, at a glance, quickly know that there are not many code snippets across the web lying around with that conventional variable name.